RBS Express
 acquisition radar on railcar
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1961 (11th RBS): Rhame, North Dakota
tbd: Bowman, North Dakota
1961: McAlester, Oklahoma
1961 December (#2): Hawthorne, Nevada
1962 January: Greenville, Texas
1962 April: Athens, Georgia
1962 May: Jalapa, South Carolina
1962 June: Barksdale AFB, Louisiana
1963 Jan: Worthington, Minnesota
1963 Mar-May: Deeth, Nevada
1963 (# "III"): Jalapa, South Carolina
1963 May-Jun (1st): depot
1963 June (1st): Minnesota
tbd: Corsicana, Texas
1964 Jan: Emhouse, Texas
1964 Jan-Mar: Thoreau, New Mexico
tbd: Crane, Indiana
1964 Sep: Moulton, Iowa
1965: Scott City, Kansas
1965 Apr-Sep: Newport, Arkansas (3rd time)
1966 Oct: Wendell, Idaho
1966-67:Rion, South Carolina
1968 February (w/ MSQ-39): Wellsville, Missouri
1968 May: Naicom, Saskatchewan
1968-9: Ritzville, Washington
1969: Lawen, Oregon
1970 May: Saskatoon, Canada
RBS Express railroad trains were 3 mobile United States Air Force radar stations for 1CEVG Radar Bomb Scoring (RBS) of Strategic Air Command bomber crews beginning in March 1961. Electronic equipment included the "MSQ-39, TLQ-11, MPS-9, and the IFF/SIF for the MSQ-39" along with support railcars ("work train"), and the trains were temporarily used at various rail sites (e.g., sidings) with the radar attennas emplaced using hoists built onto flatcars. Pulled by a "contracted locomotive" that left the train at the site (e.g., for 45 days), and a North American B-25 Mitchell was used for calibration of the radar station.
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