US Army Gun

Here the gun is used with the Airfix American WWI Infantry set.

The 14 inch gun was very huge and were always mounted on permanent mounts along the coast.

This is a nice gun with a lot of small wheels and parts.

Here the soldier is next to the brake wheel.

The troops along the walkway at the side of the gun.
 

MPC Rail Gun

This model is about 1/64th scale is my guess. 

There are several nearly identical guns from 10, 12, and 14 inches caliber.

The model is not actually made to rise up and fall back like a disappearing rifle would normally do.

It works with a variety of figure scales, here with MPC ring hand figures.

I think it works just fine, as maybe a 6 inch or 8 inch gun.
 

Soviet Heavy Rail Artillery

Here is the Soviet railway gun in action.

Sitting along a rail spur.

Getting ready to fire.

Troops check the area.

The gun is moved onto the target.

And it's ready to fire.

Train with Cannon

So far I have put it together and primer painted it.

I figure this is about an eight inch gun.

I think it's a pretty simple and easy conversion.

No glass in the windows, in real life they probably would have shutters rather than glass.

Real Soviet guns often have a green or overall black paint job.  These will probably get green.

Soviet Railway Gun

I am building a few WWII Soviet Union heavy railway artillery guns.

The Russians did use large caliber guns on railway carriages with a turret.

This is a model crane that I got at a train show.

The frame was broken, so I repaired it with another bit of plastic.

The gun is from the old Airfix Coastal Defense Fort.

I have three of them so far.

Railway Museum

Once I finished reading the morning paper, MRS Bunkermeister and I visited the Railpark Train Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

The museum is located in and around the former L&N Railroad terminal.  Louisville and Nashville Railroad that is.

The view from the cab for the engineer.

And the engineers set and throttle control.  They had a number of very nice exhibits inside the building and a small passenger train outside.  We got to take a tour of the train.

They also had this old caboose, sort of the office for freight trains.

They also have a hospital train car that they intend to restore.

They also have a train layout with windows that look out to the real trains on the tracks next to the museum.  Real working trains also pass by on another set of rails next to the trains on display.

The layout represents Bowling Green, Kentucky in the 1960's ish.  Sort of.

It's HO scale and all it needs are a couple hundred military vehicles and a few thousand troops and it would be perfect!

Williams

Later, in Williams, Arizona, we found another, small outdoor train museum.

The box car showed the markings of most of the railroads that served this area.

The tank car had US Army markings, always good for a wargame.

Most of these big pieces of machinery have casting marks on them, and they often tell a story to those who can interpret them.  

MPC Ring hand troops visit the Army tanker.

Williams PD has an old cruiser parked near the edge of town to deter speeders.

Train

While driving across America we visited many restaurants, parks, and motels.

This one had a 1950's retro theme going on.

I suspect it was built in the 1950's and they just kept the decor.

Across the street they had a nice locomotive in the part.

It was huge, those driving wheels are six feet across.

Train Show Haul

The real question on your minds is not, tell us about the train show, it's what did you get at the train show, Bunkermeister?  Here's a start.

This item is a box car, before WWII companies often owned box cars to haul their products in and the railroads pulled them for a fee.

I collect trains from the Southwest USA and German wartime trains.

ATSF, Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific are prime route for me.

This black item is a re-railer.  Model trains run over it and their wheels are pushed back onto the tracks, they are disguised as train crossings.

Train cars from all over the country might be found in any particular region on any give day.

 A Liberty ship could hold 300 box cars worth of stuff in their hold.

A US Army Infantry Division in WWI used 30 box cars per day.