WWII Train

[Anonymous]

Working on a WWII train. Was curious if the following are good suppliers of WWII freight cars? If you know of any better, or cheaper please let me know. :) Any input on this is welcome.

Liliput
Roco
REI Military
Artitec

[cacole]

Walthers recently released a series of Troop Sleepers and a Troop Kitchen car. They also have a figure set to go with them. If you're willing to paint pewter castings, check for a hobby shop that carries Musket Miniatures for all types of suitable figures.

[Anonymous]

Musket Miniatures looks good. I just checked out there site, and it is definatley the place to get the figures I'm looking for. Thanks. Now I just have to do a lot of research and hopefully I can find all the freight cars I need.

[jrbarney]

Auzyrr,
You may want to visit Merle Rice's Model Railroad Warehouse:
http://mrrwarehouse.com
He has rather busy (visually) Web pages, but click on the link that says Troop Page. There are also some interesting links off that page. To aid you in your research, you may also want to visit these sites:
http://www.ww2.modelmaker.com
and,
http://military.railfan.net
Hope this helps.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[twhite]

During WWII, the military's need for equipment far outstripped the rolling stock actually owned by the military, especially 40-and 50' flatcars, so using regular RR equipment of the period to haul your trucks and tanks would be OK. On the troop trains, it was usual to have one kitchen car for every six troop sleepers. Officers often rode in regular Pullman cars mixed into the train, so a mix of Troop sleepers and regular pullman equipment would be quite prototypical.
Tom


Troop train on my layout made up of Walther's Troop and Standard Pullman cars

[orsonroy]

We need more information. Do you want to model an American train hauling a military load of some sort, or are you looking to model a European train from WWII? (and if so, which nation?) From the model manufacturers you've mentioned, it appears that you're looking at assembling a Euro train.

Let us know in more detail what you're looking for, and we can target our answers better.

[Anonymous]

An European train has to be run by a BR52, with a tender designed to save steel for the german war industry.

[Anonymous]

The BR 52 was built light, cheap and fast for the German war effort: it did NOT replace all of the other locomotives. The DRG also ran very short of locomotives and rollingstock during WWII...

Allan Lees

[Anonymous]

Bachmann have one of the British-built "WD" 2-8-0 tender locos in OO scale - these were built in the UK and shipped overseas later. The scale difference may or may not bother you - it doesn't bother me! These were effectively a British answer to the BR52 "Kriegslok" - they were designed to use the cheapest materials and quickest assembly techniques - lots of castings rather than forgings, for example, and plenty of heavy iron in place of steel. Hope this helps!