Armored trains today

[Mastermariner]

http://sputniknews.com/military/20160815/1044282642/russian-armored-train-exercises.html

Amazing! Russia still has two armored trains and plans to use them.  According to some the Stalingrad campaign was a war of trains with a train arriving every twelfth minute. Must have been a logistic nightmare. Btw do we have any armored trains in BoS, BoM?

 

Master

[Cybermat47]

Btw do we have any armored trains in BoS, BoM?

 

Master

Not as far as I know, and I'm not sure if armoured trains were used in real life at either battle.

[Mastermariner]

Some from today

 

 

and some from then

 

 

I think we should have some. Wasn't there a man called Foobar or something that is an expert on trains?

 

Master

[MiloMorai]

Not as far as I know, and I'm not sure if armoured trains were used in real life at either battle.

 

One of these armoured trains was the one built in my native town Voroshilovgrad (now Lugansk). This story began in summer 1941, when workers of Kolomna plant "imeni S.V.Kujbysheva", Brjansk plant "imeni Profinterna" and Voroshilovgrad locomotive-building plant "imeni Oktjabrskoj revolutsii" decided to build two armoured trains and equip them with volunteers. By the end of September 1941 the first of them was built at Kolomna, named "Osobyj bronepoezd №1" and sent to front. It fought at the battle for Moscow between Mozhajsk and Gzhatsk stations, and was destroyed by the end of year. Another one, being under construction in Brjansk, soon was endangered by advancing German troops and was evacuated in mid August, 1941, to Voroshilovgrad along with materials, numerous workers and their families. Immediately after arriving to Vorshilovgrad, all local specialists also began to work. Among them were those veterans who participated in building armoured trains in Lugansk in 1918

 

http://soviethammer.blogspot.ca/p/russian-armoured-trains.html

[HippyDruid]

Never seen any in game from memory, but this thread reminded me of the Polish Treasure hunt.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/16/polish-treasure-hunters-begin-excavation-in-hunt-for-nazi-gold-t/

 

Apparently that is still a thing...

[Cybermat47]

One of these armoured trains was the one built in my native town Voroshilovgrad (now Lugansk). This story began in summer 1941, when workers of Kolomna plant "imeni S.V.Kujbysheva", Brjansk plant "imeni Profinterna" and Voroshilovgrad locomotive-building plant "imeni Oktjabrskoj revolutsii" decided to build two armoured trains and equip them with volunteers. By the end of September 1941 the first of them was built at Kolomna, named "Osobyj bronepoezd №1" and sent to front. It fought at the battle for Moscow between Mozhajsk and Gzhatsk stations, and was destroyed by the end of year. Another one, being under construction in Brjansk, soon was endangered by advancing German troops and was evacuated in mid August, 1941, to Voroshilovgrad along with materials, numerous workers and their families. Immediately after arriving to Vorshilovgrad, all local specialists also began to work. Among them were those veterans who participated in building armoured trains in Lugansk in 1918

 

http://soviethammer.blogspot.ca/p/russian-armoured-trains.html

Awesome, thank you for the information. Hopefully Osobyj Bronepoezd No. 1 gets added into the game - armoured trains are pretty cool looking, and can be hard to beat in a flight sim

[Gunsmith86]

 

 

Wasn't there a man called Foobar or something that is an expert on trains?

 

Yes

 

http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/13057-der-modellbahn-thread-virtuell-und-ganz-real/