steamer69: I was with the 1205th from 1994 to 2003. Regarding the 1205th and the 226th, it's a complicated story. The 1205th TROB had about 150 slots but, during the mid- to late 1990s it was steadily seeing more and more of them moved from Middletown, CT, to its subordinate unit at Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU) near Southport, NC. The MOTSU element had started out as a handful of guys who stayed behind when the 1205th demobilized after the Gulf War of 1990-91. They were still in the unit but their slots were officially on the books in CT. Later their status was formally recognized as Det 1 with, if I recall correctly, 21 slots. Later the number increased to 35 and it became Section C, pulling the Section C designation from CT, where the HQ and Sections A and B remained. Later still the MOTSU unit became separate from the 1205th with about 100 slots and was given the designation of 1355th Transportation Railway Operating Company. If mobilized, the 1205th and 1355th would go to MOTSU and the 1205th would be over the 1355th.
The growth of the MOTSU-based unit was entirely at the expense of the 1205th, and as the MOTSU-based element grew, the 1205th in CT shrank, so by the time the 1355th was established, the 1205th only had about 50 slots left.
At the same time, the Milwaukee-based 757th Transportation Battalion (Railway) was not doing well with its manpower numbers and was reportedly at 39% strength. Having a lot of people becoming excess following the transfer of slots south to MOTSU, the 1205th made the case that, if USAR moved the 226th Transportation Company (Ry), part of the 757th Trans Bn (Ry), from Melvin Price Support Center in Granite City, IL, to Westover Air Reserve Base, MA, it would have it up and operating within 18 months. So, the 226th was inactivated in IL in late 2000 and reactivated in March 2001 at Westover ARB, where it would be under the 1205th. Meanwhile, the unit in Granite City was reduced to a detachment and placed under another company of the 757th.
Note: the missions of the 1205th and the 226th were completely different. The 1205th was organized specifically to go to MOTSU to augment the MOTSU's rail operations and MoW employees, while the 226th was organized for overseas deployment. If mobilized, the 226th would go under the 757th.
With the 226th under its wing, the 1205th had a place to put personnel displaced by the transfer of 1205th slots to MOTSU, plus it could actually grow overall because the 226th was a good-sized company. (You called it the "226th CROTB." What does CROTB mean?)
One of USAR's unpleasant surprises early in the decade was that it had many TDA units, such as the 1205th, that were organized and trained for use in CONUS, but not enough to meet overseas commitments, and as part of an overall change in USAR force structure, the 1205th was inactivated in September 2006.
By October 2008 all of USAR's remaining rail units were under the 757th, and it wasn't too much later that it was announced that the 757th would be inactivated in 2015.
As the shift went away from a CONUS-based mission, the 1355th TROC was completely reorganized, reflagged, given a new mission as the 1151st Transportation Company (Ry) and put under the 757th. It moved from MOTSU to a USAR center in Wilmington, and at last word its personnel do no rail training at MOTSU, although the company's vehicle drivers go to MOTSU to practice driving over the base's roads.
While the headquarters of the 757th is in Milwaukee, its subordinate units are widely scattered. At last look, these were the locations of all of the units under the 757th:
HQ 757th Transportation Battalion (Railway)
WSY7AA
Milwaukee USARC
4850 West Silver Spring Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53218-3400
10 officers, 1 WO, 42 EM
226th Transportation Company (Railway Operating)
WQ42AA
Chicopee AFRC
700 Eagle Drive
Box 24
Westover ARB, MA 10122-2010
5 officers, 117 EM
1150th Transportation Company (Railway Operating)
WQ5FAA
Phillip H. Sheridan USARC
3155 Blackhawk Drive
Fort Sheridan, IL 60037-1289
5 officers, 117 EM
Det 1
WQ5FA2
Granite City USARC
Building 331
1230 First Street
Granite City, IL 62040-1801
1151st Transportation Company (Railway Operating)
WQ5GAA
3623 Carolina Beach Road
Wilmington, NC 28412
(New location effective mid-Sep 2011)
3 officers, 43 EM
Det 1
WQ5GA2
Blue Grass Army Depot USARC
2091 Kingston Highway
Richmond, KY 40475-5001
1 officer, 43 EM
Det 2
WQ5GA3
MOTSU
Southport, NC 28461-7800
1 officer, 34 EM
(Det 2 has been relocated from MOTSU to the USAR center on Carolina Beach Road.)
1152nd Transportation Company (Railway Operating)
WQ5HAA
Milwaukee USARC
4850 West Silver Spring Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53218-3400
4 officers, 73 EM
Det 1
WQ5HA2
Fort McCoy Complex
2010 South 8th Street
Fort McCoy, WI 54656-5136
You asked specifically about the 226th. The last I heard about it, the unit had thinned out considerably in anticipation of eventual inactivation and had perhaps one train crew left.