Show us your Military Trains......

[mecgp7]

Really nice troop train. The old Con Cor military set always tempted me. I think the 40's  would be a great era to model. There are a lot more military kits and soldiers available and even some other military RR equipment. Heck, there is an N scale Liberty ship out there. Possibilities are endless.

[jpwisc]

Yes the coupler still is the problem. We work with n scale. It doesn't take much to uncouple these with vertical movement, especially over atlas c55 frogs. I wish MT would have expanded on the z-scale 905 coupler line instead of these.
I can't make them reliable enough for my own use with long trains and helper operations.

Adam

I tested these and had zero problems. They hold insanely well. The only times I have seen them prematurely uncouple has been on uneven trackwork (way too common in the N Scale world). If I had uncoupling issues with these on my layout, I would do the same as Nick and fix the trackwork. Yes we do work in N Scale, our tolerances are smaller. But don’t blame the coupler when the problem is still your trackwork. That’s like saying a Kato runs like garbage because you refuse to clean your track.

[draskouasshat]

I tested these and had zero problems. They hold insanely well. The only times I have seen them prematurely uncouple has been on uneven trackwork (way too common in the N Scale world). If I had uncoupling issues with these on my layout, I would do the same as Nick and fix the trackwork. Yes we do work in N Scale, our tolerances are smaller. But don’t blame the coupler when the problem is still your trackwork. That’s like saying a Kato runs like garbage because you refuse to clean your track.

I take it you haven't mounted these on passenger cars? Don't get me, track work adds to it but the tolerances for the couplers ate too small for long overhang cars, even on my minimum 24"radius curves. MT should have expanded upon the 905 coupler instead of these.

[OldEastRR]

soo..... anybody else got military trains to shows, no matter what couplers they use?

[Nick Lorusso]

soo..... anybody else got military trains to shows, no matter what couplers they use?

I agree.

[ntex]

Here is my Big Boy and military movement on our NTRAK layout.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1R9hSJOOviLHusKKLuz2qqWGxuJiTFl-b

Steve Fass

[Chinapig]

My troop train and Big Boy on our club's oNeTrak modular layout, Solent Summit.

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Cheers, Ted

[atsf3751]

Couple of things have always amused me with some available N Scale military models. Why are tanks and artillery pieces covered with a tarp? These are designed as all weather equipment.

[peteski]

Couple of things have always amused me with some available N Scale military models. Why are tanks and artillery pieces covered with a tarp? These are designed as all weather equipment.

Maybe those are super-secret prototype military vehicles? 
I suspect that the real reason is that a tarp-covered vehicle is much easier to resin-mold (as a single-piece casting) than an uncovered one with all the details poking out if it. 

[atsf3751]

I believe they were dipped in cosmoline and then covered with a tarp to keep them from rusting.

[atsf3751]

I had to clean an M2 .50cal machine gun, so I know it would be a very enjoyable experience.

[jpwisc]

It hadn’t made it to the train yet, but I was given permission to cast some HEMMITs a while back for a friend. I kept one for my collection. I made it this far and then... squirrel!

[Nato]

                :|Here are photos of my Military Train. The history of this train created in the 1980's is interesting. Two brothers who were members of the old Utah N Rail modeling group  (now Wasatch N Scale) put two N Scale German Leopard tanks on Micro Trains flat cars and ran them ahead of the caboose in trains at shows. After noticing the great reaction especially from kids I decided I would make a WWII military train. Problem was there was no World War II era N Scale loads out there in the 1980's so my train is a hybrid. There are Leopard tanks, two micro machines  (small size) tanks. The first three cars have loads from Birt Industries in Florida, now long gone he made some awful resin items and also some nice gems , the Jeeps and trailers, the duce and a half trucks and the modern self propelled Howitzer's . The cars are all Atlas former undec flat cars. The Red Cross trailer and the last car were from Locomotives. This train is often run at the end of freight trains at shows or as a stand alone pictured here.     Nate Goodman (Nato). 

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[casmmr]

The trains show well and look nice, but, to be truly authentic, WWII troop trains need a couple of things:  early WWII trains used coaches for the enlisted men with pullmans and dining cars for the officers; with the introduction of the troop cars, the coaches were dropped for the troop cars, but, the officers still travelled in pullmans and ate in dining cars on real china with real silver ware.  The em's were lucky to get C or K rations while in transit.  Remember RANK has it's privileges.

[delamaize]

It hadn’t made it to the train yet, but I was given permission to cast some HEMMITs a while back for a friend. I kept one for my collection. I made it this far and then... squirrel!

Ugh, I need 3 of those and like 5 or so HMWVs still