Here is a link to what I've been working on lately... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmEPXMlCRvc It's about half of my WWII military loads being pulled by a Rivarossi Big Boy. I have about 50 flats with all Roco Minitanks placed on them. The flats are mostly Athearn blue box cars with Kadee's and metal wheels and have had their decks painted and then weathered with india ink wash. They are set with basswood chocks but not glued down so I can remove them for storage or to put on my club military base modules. It seems like I always have a few more Minitanks so I have to buy some flats or a few extra flats and I have to buy some Minitanks. I have plenty but there are still a lot more vehicles I would love to have. Oh the obsession with model railroading! Ty Holland, Michigan You can check out our club, the Holland Modular Railroad Club, at... http://hollandtrainclub.com
cool, great train here's my N scale version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4U32s6nEF8 and you might find this interesting, WWII film on moving an amoured unit by rail http://www.archive.org/details/TroopTra1943 and just a details note; troop trains were generally loaded/unloaded "circus" style on a team track,( see film above ) and driven onto a string of cars via bridge plates, so they would all be facing the same way, not nose to nose. I know that I wouldn't want to back a Sherman tank onto a string of flatcars, and across bridge plates. One last thing, all the Hellcats would have their gun facing the rear of the tank, as the barrel would be in the travel lock, for the shermans, travel lock location varied by the cannon size.
thanks for the info great looking train! it's always hard to see the detail in online videos so i'm wondering how you keep things from sliding around? did you chain, glue or something else? i've seen "troop train" but didn't realize the part of about having vehicles all in the same direction. i guess i have some adjusting to do, which isn't a problem because it's all glued down with elmer's white glue. on my layout i do have some wood bridge plates i've built to place between a few cars that let some vehicles move between flats. the problem with athearn flats are that the brake wheel posts get in the way and i don't want to cut them off so all i can do is a bridge between two cars. thanks! ty
