Recreating a Nazi Railgun

[The Train]

Has anyone modeled one of those huge Nazi Railguns that took up to sets of tracks in order to move?

 

[bklynman01]

It would be quite a scene if you get one these to put on your layout!

It seems if you have enough $$$, you can do exactly that...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/JTG-German-...P-K5-Railway-Gun-9-Support-Cars-/281133380237

 

[Motley]

Wow that is huge, I never seen that before. That would be cool to put on the layout, although it might not clear my tunnel portals.

 

[blackz28]

Wow that is huge, I never seen that before. That would be cool to put on the layout, although it might not clear my tunnel portals.

yea they are awesome , theres is a bunch of websites with info on them


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oLC9XtnVJI

heres a vid

 

[tootnkumin]

Wow that is huge, I never seen that before. That would be cool to put on the layout, although it might not clear my tunnel portals.

Tunnel portals?? With one of those you could fire off a round and make the whole tunnel!!!

 

[h44]

holy crap what scale is that?

 

[NScaler]

It says in the title 1/87 - HO

 

[Bruette]

How about the one from world war one "the Paris gun" I think they may have also called it big bertha.

 

[cuxhaven]

Reynaulds has some rail guns in HO scale!

http://www.reynaulds.com/catalog/dept_785.aspx

 

[trailrider]

Nothing that big on my layout. Have two U.S. M4A3E8's on a flatcar, and a couple of N.K.P.A. Russian T-34's on another. One of the T-34's is minus the turret, which is on the flatcar. These are being shipped to a proving ground for comparison and evaluation. It seems a pair of T-34's were hit in the flank by the "Easy-8's". A 76mm high velocity HEAT round penetrated the side of one T-34 at the turret ring, blowing the turret off. When the crew of the other tank saw this, they paniced and surrendered! It's 1953. Passenger traffic on the Grashhook, Galesburg & Western Division of the C.B & Q, GN and NP has increased dramatically. California Zephyr, Twin Cities Zephyr, Pioneer Zephyr, Empire Builder, local GN, North Coast Limited and local NP trains can be seen. As soon as I can figure out how to do it, and have the time, I'll try to post some photos.

 

[ho/ttothemoss]

I got this one say's its an n scale! but that one would be like 10 of these! looks great!

 

[tootnkumin]

Too bad if they forgot to apply the brakes, the recoil would land the gun in China.

 

[John P]

One thing I was interested to see on the web page about the big rail guns was that they couldn't be aimed horizontally--I think that was partly to make them more easily movable and partly because crosswise to the track, the recoil really would have been a problem. So what they did was place the gun on curved track, and haul it back and forth to get it pointed where they wanted to aim.

 

[JimT]

When I'm having fun with Model Railroading I just loose that militaristic edge.