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"Fervidis rotis ad metam"

Trains were used for the first time for military purposes in 1859 when some units of the 1^st and 2^nd Pontoons Regiments were trained to the railway transport of the French-Piedmontese Armies employed in the Second War of Independence. On 20^th October 1860 the 6^th Company of the 2^nd Engineer Regiment got the first decoration for the railway pioneers specialty, a Bronze Medal to the Military Valour for its behavior in the battles of Macerone.

On 1^st July 1895 the Railway Pioneers Brigade was constituted, led by Major Giuseppe Fassini; in October 1910 it became Railway Pioneers Engineer Regiment. During the 1^st World War the Regiment participated in the construction of 147 km of railway networks, 600 km of decauville, in restoring 144 bridges and in the transport of Great Units to different sectors of the front. For the 2^nd World War the Railway Pioneers Engineer Regiment mobilized 13 railway battalions and 3 line exercise groups on 5 sections. The units were employed on all fronts, from Africa to Russia, from Yugoslavia to France to Greece.

After the war, on 1^st October 1957 the Regiment was reconstituted on the Regimental Company Command, the 1^st Railway Pioneers Battalion, the 2^nd Pontoons Engineer Battalion, the line Exercise Company. On 29^th June 1958, with a solemn ceremony, it received the War Flag already awarded with the Bronze Medal to the Military Valour to which a War Cross to the Military Valour was added for the 1^st Railway Pioneers Battalion in Russia. On 1^st January 1962 the Railway Pioneers Engineer Regiment included the 6^th Pioneers Engineer Army Corps Battalion that was dissolved on 31^st October 1975. On 1^st February 1964 the 2^nd Pontoons Engineer Battalion passed again at the dependencies of the 2^nd Pontoons Engineer Regiment.

The Unit was substituted by the reinforcement of the preexistent Exercise Company that on 1^st July 1965 became the 2^nd Exercise Railway Pioneers Engineer Battalion. On 24^th June 1984 the Flag of the Regiment was awarded with a Bronze Medal to the Army Merit for having restored the Milano-Domodossola line that was damaged by atmospheric events. On 20^th June 1998, on the occasion of the Engineer Celebration at the Engineer School in Rome-Cecchignola, the Regiment was decorated with the Silver Medal to the Army Valour for its work in Bosnia during the IFOR-SFOR mission.

During 2002 the Regiment ceded the Chivasso-Aosta line to the Railways, redeploying the exercise battalion in Ozzano Emilia (BO).