The decommissioned PLA Railway Engineering Corps.

As China unveils the world's fastest high speed train and its French designed railway terminals. (here), perhaps it is time to look back at PLA's long forgotten Railway Engineering Corps (REC).The Wuhan TerminalThe REC was commissioned in August 1948 and "civilianized" in 1982 (here) by merged into the Ministry of Railway. In the 1970s, the REC peaked at 15 divisions and a total of 400,000