North Korean RailwayDeja Vu?

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samfp1943

Possibly, even Lionel, was way ahead of its time? 

Lionel probably couldn't help being ahead of their time with this gent running the company, however briefly:

https://goordnance.army.mil/hof/1970/1972/medaris.html

[samfp1943]

BEAUSABRE

Relying on memory, the USAF proposed launching Minuteman missiles from rail cars in the early Sixties and the the Peacekeeper in the Eighties ("Rail Garrison"?)

Looks like I was right

Minuteman Mobility Test Train - Wikipedia

Peacekeeper Rail Garrison - Wikipedia

  You touched on the very points I was trying point out.  Another case of things being old; and in new iterations, become 'new' again....

  Who knows? Possibly, the Norko's leader was inspired by his own Lionel missle launcher, on his layout in his Pyongyang basement ?

 It seems that, in this fast moving world we're living in; of technological leaps, and bounds. A 200 year old technology, still has a role to play, even in the world of supersonic, airborne this, and that.  Possibly, even Lionel, was way ahead of its time? 

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Enh- big deal, Lionel had a missile-launching boxcar many years ago- my cousins had one on their layout in the attic. 

[BEAUSABRE]

Relying on memory, the USAF proposed launching Minuteman missiles from rail cars in the early Sixties and the the Peacekeeper in the Eighties ("Rail Garrison"?)

Looks like I was right

Minuteman Mobility Test Train - Wikipedia

Peacekeeper Rail Garrison - Wikipedia

 

 

[samfp1943]

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42394/north-korea-is-now-launching-ballistic-missile-from-trains-and-thats-a-big-deal

While reading up on a website I follow;  The followig article was found:

"North Korea Is Now Launching Ballistic Missiles From Trains And That's A Big Deal"

"Rail-mobile missiles offer North Korea a relatively low-cost way to rapidly disperse weapons while also making them very hard to target."

By Joseph Trevithick September 15, 2021:The War Zone

 

The Russians have 'reactivated' some of their rail mounted missile launching rail trains, and they are apparently, still active, and being operated(?) and being currently,trained with?//

          Not sure of the current status of the missile trains in the United States? Last I had heard, they were on display in the country (at least some of that rolling stock.) )That was via a Wikipedia article.. So who knows?

 

The date on this article [09/15/2021] shows the information to be current(?) So the source is normally a credible resource.

FTA: (C&P)     "...The launches were carried out by the North Korean military's Railway Mobile Missile Regiment and this was the unit's first time demonstrating what was described only as a "railway mobile missile system," according to an official release from the country's state media. The statement also says the missiles flew approximately 800 kilometers, or nearly 500 miles, from their launch point before failing into the sea off the country's eastern coastline..."

 

The linked article contains references to the Russian missile trains. Kim Jong Un's fleet {some hundred, or so Passenger cars, and engines] of armored trains,[used for his travels around Asia] and an article on how American Presidents have used trains to travel and campaign.   Note: There are color photos included with the articles.