Both AAR and military loading guides show up on E-Bay regularly, they are a gold mine of blocking and bracing for all types of vehicles. The majority of military vehicles are not "pointy" just trucks and tractors, so they military blocking and bracing is applicable to civilian shipments too. Just as an aside, the Honest John launcher wouldn't have the missile loaded on it for rail shipment, too much of a chance for damage and vanadalism. They would be boxed in a boxcar or on a flatcar (either placarded explosives).
An M47 tank weighs about 45-50 tons so they would be loaded one per flat car unless it was a heavy duty flatcar. Jeeps would be loaded stacked. The German halftrack without armaments on it would be loaded on the car with the howitzer so it could tow it off the train. Every car would also have a bridge plate on one side of each end, stowed on the deck.
The train could also have a DODX caboose or a combine to house an escort detail with the train. Ammunition would be in plain railroad boxcars placarded explosives.
About 3 decades ago I made a similar train for shows on the Schuylkill Valley Model RR Club. It was a fun train to build.
Dave Husman
Modeling the Wilmington & Northern Branch in 1900-1905
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Great resource:
Thankfully, I got a lot of information at the MRR forum I ususally post to. One member provided a particularly good document for military-load specifications: http://www.mclbbarstow.marines.mil/Portals/132/Docs/Pam_55-19_63_edition...
Loading guides
Both AAR and military loading guides show up on E-Bay regularly, they are a gold mine of blocking and bracing for all types of vehicles. The majority of military vehicles are not "pointy" just trucks and tractors, so they military blocking and bracing is applicable to civilian shipments too. Just as an aside, the Honest John launcher wouldn't have the missile loaded on it for rail shipment, too much of a chance for damage and vanadalism. They would be boxed in a boxcar or on a flatcar (either placarded explosives).
An M47 tank weighs about 45-50 tons so they would be loaded one per flat car unless it was a heavy duty flatcar. Jeeps would be loaded stacked. The German halftrack without armaments on it would be loaded on the car with the howitzer so it could tow it off the train. Every car would also have a bridge plate on one side of each end, stowed on the deck.
The train could also have a DODX caboose or a combine to house an escort detail with the train. Ammunition would be in plain railroad boxcars placarded explosives.
About 3 decades ago I made a similar train for shows on the Schuylkill Valley Model RR Club. It was a fun train to build.
Dave Husman
Modeling the Wilmington & Northern Branch in 1900-1905
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