Anybody done a WWII tank, truck and artillery transport train?

Check out Mr Muffin's (Steve Nelson) videos. He used MTH cars and tanks and they looked very nice.

Buzz

one of our club members, Mike Turan, has an entire train of flats with all manner of military vehicles on them: tanks, jeeps, deuce & halfs, even a V2 rocket.

I don't have any photos, but perhaps another club member does and can post.

I made my tank train with these. They are excellent 1/48 scale models that are simple to assemble. Once they are painted properly, the look great on a flat car and they are light.

https://www.amazon.com/Revell-...lastic/dp/B00DVNFWLU

https://www.modelcars.com/reve...e-quake-sherman-tank

The Solido diecast tanks were too heavy and made the flat cars top heavy.

The Tamiya kits were too expensive, plus they were complicated to assemble.

The Revell kits were cheap and did the job nicely.

While tanks were usually loaded on flat cars, other equipment such as jeeps, 4X4 Dodge trucks, ambulances and even artillery pieces were often loaded on gondola cars, especially those with drop ends.  During the postwar period, the Western Maryland often had only one or two cars with military equipment in a train.  The equipment was being rotated back and forth between the Letterkenney Army Depot in southern Pennsylvania  and Germany. 

I run sort of an "all era, part whimsical" military train....but, much of my stuff is WWII.

The train is slated to increase by about 10 cars by this Fall.

These videos are from 2015, 2014 & 2013.

Peter

Like these.......

Jesse     TCA  12-68275

The Prelinger Archives has the full movie in much higher fidelity available to download for free.

Awesome stuff and a lot of classic railroad scenery:

texastrain posted:

Like these.......

Jesse     TCA  12-68275

Jesse did you make these tanks etc or are they part of a kit(s)?

There have been several posts in the past couple of years by members creating their own military transport trains in varying level of detail. From the highly detailed to the toy-like. Try the search feature. Here's one from March 2016 of the last few cars Scrapiron Scher put together. Since he assembled 20 or so this last go-round he has a few posts about them. He also did several back in 2013/14.

https://ogrforum.com/t...up-the-military-rain

Hope this helps.

Mike