#armoured train

[theworldofwars]

An American 14 inch naval gun on a railway platform firing near Thierville, 29 October 1918.

[scrapironflotilla]

A gun crew and rifleman of the Guards Division in an armoured train in Finland during the German intervention in the Finnish Civil War, 1918.

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

蒼衣わっふる

[nelc]

Russian armoured train Zaamurets (also known as Orlik, BP-4, Lenin, and Train No. 105 by its various owners) was built in Odessa during WWI, fighting on the Galician Front. It then fought for the Tsarist forces in Poland. The Communists then sent it to Ukraine, then the Bolsheviks sent it south to fight the counter-revolutionaries, where it was captured by the Czech Legion, who took it to Vladivostok. Peace having been made between the Bolsheviks and the Czechs, it then fought against the Japanese, until it was surrendered. The Japanese, in turn, gave it up to the White Russians, who added it to their collection of 80-odd armoured trains and used it alongside Chinese Nationalists against the Japanese again, and other Chinese Nationalists. Japanese-backed nationalists captured it again... and then nobody knows what happened to it. Blown up, scrapped, fallen though a wormhole, kidnapped by time-travelling documentary film-makers?

[scrapironflotilla]

A gun crew and rifleman of the Guards Division in an armoured train in Finland, 1918.

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Armoured Train in Action - Gino Severini, 1915

[theworldofwars]

A 12 inch railway gun outside Arras being covered prior to removal.

[scrapironflotilla]

French gunners manning a 160 mm artillery gun on a revolving platform mounted on an armoured train at Villers-Daucourt, 1 June 1916.