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WWII rolling stock & HO vehicles

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Posted by zstripe on Friday, January 27, 2017 4:57 AM

This site which I will link to...lists on the left margin just about every manufacturer of Military vehicles of WWII, in 1/87th and others. Just click on anyone of them and look at their offerings:

http://www.reynaulds.com/rei.aspx

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Posted by 7j43k on Thursday, January 26, 2017 6:44 PM

If you're talking about military rolling stock that was used in the US, here it is for July 1945:

US Navy had

about 80 helium tank cars, 8 regular tank cars, 78 depressed center flats, 107 hoppers, 1400 boxcars

War Department had

4000 tank cars, 16 calcium carbide cars

 

The above were freight cars.  There were also 100 hospital cars, 800 troop kitchens, 40 hospital kitchen and 2400 troop sleepers owned by the War Department but operated by Pullman.

 

If you're thinking of doing military trains in the US, all the Army equipment was transported on railroad-owned cars.  Personnel were transported in the above cars plus other cars leased from Pullman.

 

For military equipment, I'd start looking with Roco.  There might be others, but no names come to mind.  And don't forget to take the machine guns off the top of the tanks and trucks during transport.

 

Ed

 

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Thursday, January 26, 2017 6:11 PM

Roco makes very nice models of military vehicles. They make tanks and jeeps etc. They can be found online and in some local hobby shops. I think they are now owned by Herpa.

Here is a link to Walthers:

https://www.walthers.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=roco

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Posted by UNCLEBUTCH on Thursday, January 26, 2017 6:04 PM

While surfing the web one day, I came across a few ''war game'' sites. Can't recall the names, but they had all kinds of military stuff. I recall some 1/87, 1/100 and 1/7?

My point, you may have to go outside the railroad sites

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Posted by gdelmoro on Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:47 PM

Yes. I want to add some military rolling stock. Found one cannon from life like but it doesn't look like it's good quality like an Atlas, BLI or Atheran

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Posted by 7j43k on Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:24 PM

gdelmoro

anyone have a good source of quality WWII rolling stock and vehicles?

 

 

By saying "WWII" instead of "early forties", it sounds like you're after military stuff.

Yes?  No?

Also, at least in HO, there doesn't appear to be only one source of much of anything.  At least, if ya go in kinda deeply.

 

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WWII rolling stock & HO vehicles
Posted by gdelmoro on Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:18 PM

anyone have a good source of quality WWII rolling stock and vehicles?

Gary

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