Video Added - CSX Loaded Military Train lead by YN2 Dash 9 & YN3b SD70MAC - Mentor Ohio 6/3/19

Wow!

Maybe it’s the Vermont national guard headed home

https://www.wcax.com/content/n...siana-508605711.html

Very cool pictures. That had to be quite the exercise. Did I see 155mm long Tom artillery pieces? my old guard unit had the short version.

WOW is right, God bless our troops!!

Foamerific!

That's something I have never seen on the rails...one day.

Thanks for posting, (next time take a movie)

Craignor posted:

 

Thanks for posting, (next time take a movie)

Craig, I actually do have the video of it. Only thing, it's a large file size as I tried to record it in HD, so sometime by end of week I'll have it up.

Tom,

Here is the "long tom" picture- your namesake perhaps?

That train just passed by my house,sure was cool to see all the different equipment on it.

MP 242 Track 2 east,Doug

Looks like a M777 155mm towed Field Howitzer. It has a longer barrel than its predecessor. The Army has also been testing the latest M777ER Extended Range version, with a barrel almost 8 feet longer yet, different propellants and projectiles, and a range of 40 miles! Here are the two side-by-side, with the ER version in the foreground.

@breezinup, great picture and super information.   Do you know if the current  M777 is longer than the long tom's I remember (we still had the same  WW2 versions when I was in the NG, field artillery, although my unit had the short version).

I guess we now have a long tom and a longer tom.  (and maybe a longest tome, 4 man lift version)

Nice catch Tom! Super shots as always.

hokie71 posted:

Do you know if the current  M777 is longer than the long tom's I remember (we still had the same  WW2 versions when I was in the NG, field artillery, although my unit had the short version).

I guess we now have a long tom and a longer tom.  (and maybe a longest tome, 4 man lift version)

Doing just a little research, it looks like the original Long Tom had a barrel that was 22'10" long. The M777ER has a barrel that's a bit over 24'6" long, but longer barrels have also been tested.  The regular M777 has a barrel length of 16'7". Apparently the ER version has a range of up to 43 miles. A ramjet-equipped projectile that may be introduced should have a range of up to 60 miles. There's a self-propelled version of the ER as well.

Some heavy stuff, including self-propelled 155 howitzers, I came across a number of years ago. Always fun to catch military hardware in transit. Enjoyed Tom's latest pictures.

Craignor had one of the best quotes that I've read in years...."Foamerific"....R F L M A O..oh man!  Too funny. And thanks WRAWROACX for sharing the pics.  Thank you US Military for protecting us!

With the popularity of this post, here is the video I took. And the reason it's under that bridge is do to for the photos I didn't want the shadow casts from the bridge above. Also, with the background of the bridge, you can see the Military / Army equipment better.

And this train was doing track speed of 60MPH.

From what I could see in the video it appears to be equipment from either a combat engineers or a heavy construction engineers battalion a lot of earth movers and lowboy trailers.  The engineer was definitely making good time though, any idea hat the speed limit is in that area?

Jimmy T posted:

From what I could see in the video it appears to be equipment from either a combat engineers or a heavy construction engineers battalion a lot of earth movers and lowboy trailers.  The engineer was definitely making good time though, any idea hat the speed limit is in that area?

Trackspeed for Intermodal, Auto & Military is 60.

Freight is 50

& passenger is 79.