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  • Thumbnail for 12-inch gun M1895
    detailed description of the railway mounting is given in Railway Artillery, Vol. I by Lt. Col. H. W. Miller. The range of the railway weapon was 25,000 yards...
    20 KB (1,851 words) - 19:01, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Washington Cog Railway
    The Mount Washington Cog Railway, also known as the Cog, is the world's first mountain-climbing cog railway (rack-and-pinion railway). The railway climbs...
    43 KB (3,928 words) - 15:52, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 10-inch gun M1895
    the 36 originally contracted mountings were completed. A detailed description of the railway mounting is given in Railway Artillery, Vol. I by Lt. Col...
    13 KB (1,330 words) - 06:38, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Railway gun
    A railway gun, also called a railroad gun, is a large artillery piece, often surplus naval artillery, mounted on, transported by, and fired from a specially...
    37 KB (4,725 words) - 11:14, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 8-inch gun M1888
    8-inch gun M1888 (category Railway guns)
    well as M1888 guns) were considered available for railway mounting, and 47 were ordered to be mounted on railcars. Twenty-four were produced before the...
    17 KB (1,444 words) - 17:24, 16 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for 14-inch/50-caliber railway gun
    The 14"/50 caliber railway guns were spare US Navy Mk 4 14 inch/50 caliber guns mounted on railway cars and operated by US Navy crews in France in the...
    13 KB (1,764 words) - 20:50, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seacoast defense in the United States
    models) on railway mounting 8-inch M1888 gun on railway mounting (203 mm) 8-inch Navy MkVIM3A2 gun (initially on fixed mountings) 155 mm gun M1918, a...
    83 KB (10,630 words) - 13:47, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Washington
    is designated as Mount Washington State Park. The Mount Washington Cog Railway ascends the western slope of the mountain, and the Mount Washington Auto...
    64 KB (6,657 words) - 13:30, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rack railway
    A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the...
    31 KB (3,736 words) - 15:46, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Lowe Railway
    The Mount Lowe Railway was the third in a series of scenic mountain railroads in the United States created as a tourist attraction on Echo Mountain and...
    39 KB (5,292 words) - 20:06, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for BL 14-inch railway gun
    brief service life and were scrapped in 1926, but their railway carriages were re-used for mounting guns in World War II. The guns were built by Armstrongs...
    9 KB (859 words) - 20:25, 15 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for BL 12-inch railway gun
    (86 cm) of recoil within the gun mounting. The remaining recoil energy was absorbed by allowing the entire railway wagon to roll backwards 40 feet (12 m)...
    7 KB (678 words) - 17:30, 1 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Mount Newman railway
    The Mount Newman railway, owned and operated by BHP, is a private rail network in the Pilbara region of Western Australia built to carry iron ore. It is...
    10 KB (941 words) - 12:56, 23 August 2024
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    Krupp K5 (redirect from Leopold railway gun)
    The Krupp K5 was a heavy railway gun used by Nazi Germany throughout World War II. Krupp's K5 series were consistent in mounting a 21.5-metre-long (71 ft)...
    11 KB (1,210 words) - 07:48, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for BL 18-inch railway howitzer
    Channel coast of France. In late 1940 one 18-inch howitzer was mounted on the railway mounting nicknamed "Boche Buster" which had been used in World War I...
    11 KB (1,253 words) - 19:30, 21 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mount Colah railway station
    Mount Colah railway station is located on the Main Northern line, serving the Mount Colah suburb of Sydney, Australia. It is served by Sydney Trains T1...
    6 KB (243 words) - 12:22, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for BL 9.2-inch railway gun
    by the Elswick Ordnance Company for mounting on railway trucks for use in France and Belgium. They were mounted on Vavasseur slides, which travelled...
    8 KB (851 words) - 15:50, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Druitt railway station
    Mount Druitt railway station is located on the Main Western line, serving the Sydney suburb of Mount Druitt. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 Western line...
    11 KB (626 words) - 00:14, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 12-inch coast defense mortar
    12-inch coast defense mortar (category Railway guns)
    mortar on a railway mounting. Since the mounting permitted all-around fire and thus tracking of a moving target, the 12-inch railway mortar (along with...
    29 KB (3,791 words) - 01:53, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for St. Thomas Mount railway station
    St. Thomas Mount railway station, locally known as Mount railway station or Parangimalai station, is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Beach–Chengalpattu...
    23 KB (1,202 words) - 14:22, 16 August 2024
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