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An armoured train (Commonwealth English) or armored train (American English) is a railway train protected with heavy metal plating and which often includes railway wagons armed with artillery, machine guns, and autocannons. Some have also had ports used to fire small arms from the inside of the train, especially in earlier armoured trains.
The No. 1 Armoured Train; During World War II, the Canadian high command implemented this armoured train for protection of the Canadian National Railway line between Prince Rupert, an important naval port for the Aleutian Island campaign, and Terrace, from potential attack by Japanese aircraft, submarines/gunboats, and infantry.
The Tren Blindado (transl. Armoured train) is a national monument, memorial park, and museum [1] of the Cuban Revolution, located in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba.It was created by the Cuban sculptor José Delarra on the site of and in memory of the capture of an armoured train on 29 December 1958, during the Battle of Santa Clara.
It displays various tanks, armoured vehicles and anti-tank guns used by the Finnish Defence Forces throughout their history, including Leopard 2A4 tank which is in present service. Rare exhibits are an armoured train used in World War II and the only surviving example of BT-42 assault gun. The museum was opened on June 18, 1961, when there were ...
The mission of the U.S. Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center is to acquire, preserve, and exhibit historically significant equipment, armaments and materiel that relate to the history of the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps and to document and present the evolution and development of U.S. military ordnance material dating from the American Colonial Period to the present day.
These institutions vary in their scope and focus, with some museums dedicated to a specific national or regional context and chronicling the military history of a particular country or region, while other museums may concentrate on a particular conflict, era, service, technology (like an artillery museum), or unit (like a regimental museum).
The protection and escort of supply trains (French: l'escorte des trains de ravitaillement) subjected to ambushes, required the creation of armoured trains. The armoured Legion train of Nha-Trang (La Rafale) [1] was armed by a regimental company of the 2nd Foreign Regiment 2 e RE as of 1948. The train was composed of armoured wagons, protected ...
The United States Department of Energy Nuclear Weapons Transport Train, known as the White Train, was used to transport nuclear weapons for most of the Cold War.From 1951 to 1987, the Department of Energy's Office of Secure Transportation (OST) used the train to move the weapons from the Pantex plant in the Texas panhandle, where they had been constructed. [1]