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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.
Built for the London & North Eastern Railway in 1937, this locomotive was originally numbered 4496 and named Golden Shuttle. It was renamed Dwight D. Eisenhower after World War II and renumbered 8 on 23 November 1946, under Edward Thompson's LNER 1946 renumbering scheme.
Likewise a wartime motorised locomotive or Kriegsmotorlokomotive had a KML class number and a wartime electric locomotive or Kriegselektrolokomotive would have a KEL class number. Besides the DRG, the German Armed Forces had their own locomotive classes. A field railway locomotive belonging to the Army were known as a Heeresfeldbahnlokomotive ...
The Breitspurbahn (German pronunciation: [ˈbʁaɪtʃpuːɐ̯baːn], translation: broad-gauge railway) was a railway system planned and partly surveyed by the Nazi government of Germany. Its track gauge – the distance between the two running rails – was to be 3000 mm ( 9 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 8 in ), more than twice that of the 1435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1 ...
The Red Army had a large number of armoured trains at the start of World War II but many were lost in 1941. [33] Trains built later in the war tended to be fitted with T-34 or KV series tank turrets. [33] Others were fitted as specialist anti-aircraft batteries. [33] A few were fitted as heavy artillery batteries often using guns taken from ...
Locomotives used by the British in World War II. For World War I locomotives, see Category:Railway Operating Division locomotives.
Replica of a Crampton locomotive built by J. A. Maffei as the Palatinate Railway No. 26 Museum locomotive Beuth: 2-2-2: 1912 Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (DTMB) DTMB, Berlin: Replica of the first steam locomotive independently developed in Germany by August Borsig, works number 24, around 1841 Museum locomotive Saxonia: 0-4-2: 1988 AW Halle ...
The Russian locomotive class Ye, and subclasses Ye a, Ye k, Ye l, Ye f, Ye m, Ye mv and Ye s (Russian: Паровоз Е; Е а, Е к, Е л, Е ф, Е м, Е мв and Е с) were a series of 2-10-0 locomotives built by American builders for the Russian railways in World War I and again in World War II. They were lightweight engines with ...