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Coastal ARtillery
MountainMan Offline
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02-01-2012, 01:19 PM
Looking for something you haven't ever done before? Consider the military coastal artillery, all served by a net work of narrow gauge internal railways interconnected to mainline railways.

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The heaviest batteries used these 16" naval rifles:

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02-01-2012, 01:36 PM
This is a series of images of the Panama fortifications. Note the narrow gauge tracks in the image at bottom right.
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16" battery"

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02-01-2012, 03:21 PM
" 16" naval rifles: "

That....will put a "bit of a hole" in your realestate !! Eek 357
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02-01-2012, 03:27 PM
Pretty neat stuff!
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02-01-2012, 06:33 PM
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/656750...d-grenades

Coastal artillery/railway guns being pulled by an Oahu Railway 2-8-2. The rifles are 8" guns, the mortars are 12" (IIRC). Needless to say, the Oahu Railway served many military installations and portions of the line were fortified during the 1940s. Eventually, I'll have some railway guns...but I'm going to add bomb trains first....my first military cars will be a pair of ex-D&RGW and C&S boxcars which hauled 8" cruiser ammunition.
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02-01-2012, 09:45 PM
Latest Trains has a picture of Anzio Annie, used by the Axis in Italy. Mounted on a railcar and aimed by driving it around a curve.
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02-02-2012, 11:03 AM
BR60103 Wrote:Latest Trains has a picture of Anzio Annie, used by the Axis in Italy. Mounted on a railcar and aimed by driving it around a curve.


Anzio Annie was a purpose built 28cm K series railgun. The Germans used them extensively as mobile artillery, and of course, they built the biggest railway gun in history, Schwere (Heavy) Gustav , an 800mm monster that took 1200 troops under a Major General six weeks to set up. The locomotives were incorporated into base of the cannon to provide motive power.

K5 28 cm railgun:

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Schwere Gustav:

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Armored Railway Patrol vehicle:

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German Armored train:

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