Mostley of germans locomotiv are era 2 with DRG symbols.
Search at google.com and you will find more imformation.

Thanks Kimball. Yep from what I have seen the 6 axles were used especially for the heavier tanks like the Panzer VI Tiger, Panzer V Panther, JagdTiger, JagdPanther etc. Here is a photo of a Panther being unloaded from a flat car on the eastern front:

If you're prepared to do some plastic model building Revell so 1:87 railway kits, not sure if you'll find something there you could use. I know HobbyBoss also does railway models in various scales and Airfix has a range of OO military vehicles, could be useful for items in your 'repair yard'.

I know they're not to scale but I have two 1:72 Hasegawa plastic kits, a Leopold railway gun and a Karl Morser mortar with Rail carriage, which I intend building and putting on HO wheels so that they will go on my Marklin tracks. The Dora is also on my list of 'like to have' but even in 1:72 it is huge! When I get around to doing a permanent layout (my first) these will stand in my 'open air war museum' :)

Hi Kim,all,
Roco MiniTanks,I think offers most WW2 armor.Do not forget Lilput they have done many WW2 wagens,etc.
There is gentlemen on eBay(US) who sells a lot of WW2 wagons and dioramas
A example:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Roco-Ma...3f18b05980#ht_931wt_1037


Dr D

I certainly do like modelling. Revel do some 1/76 scale tanks etc which are a bit closer to H0. The leopold would look great on a lyout!

K

The new Insider wagon set 46192 wood loads has a flat car which was used to transport light tanks and trucks ect. It is availble in ather sets. See pick of wgon set 46400 which is for DB era3 but these wagons were used by the DRG . German troop trains were usually mixed with heavy flats and smaller normal flats, i e there would be a tiger 1 followed by a truck and then a tiger again. This was done to prevent fighter bombers from attacking trains and taking out to many tanks at once! There is a nice book also on transporting tanks both today and WW2! I will get the details if you wish.

Hi, I recently bought this Era II freight car set 46401. It contains 2 freight cars with the buffers painted in white
to signify its ability to be converted to the wider Russian gauge. They were used to bring supplies to the
Russian front. Peter

Thanks! I am learning a lot

You might have been a modeller of era 2 for a long time but you are very roung about the Tiger! The Tiger body was built to loading gauge! The transport tracks had to be fitted to allow for transporttaion. The picture clearly shows tigers with there transport tracks in front on the heavy flats!. Compare the the drive wheel on the tiger and look at the track width. Now look at the track being fitted to the Tiger at Bovingdon tank musee in Dorset England. It is much wider is it Not!. Tigers had to have wider tracks in battle because they would sink with the narrow tracks. The early tigers had disk wheels. three layers of them. The outer set would have to be removed to allow transportation when they were sent to the front. By the way the Tiger in Dorset is the only running type left in the World i believe. There is more information about transport tracks on the Tiger 1 information center web site which is in English! http://www.alanhamby.com/suspension.shtml It actually tells you all about it! Please in future try not to be such a no it all. At the end of the day its his train set and we can all do what we like. Tigers may have been transported with battle tracks in Russia as they have a much greater loading gauge than Germany. But if you care to look at the web site you will no i do no what im talking about

Hi Guys,

The white buffers did signify that the wagon could be converted to Russian Broad gauge, however once the Germans invaded Russia it is my understanding that they started re-gauging the track to european standard gauge. While the wagons could be reguaged, I seem to recall reading somewhere that it took over an hour per wagon to do this. This also explains the rational behind the class 52 being built and destroyed on the eastern front in such large numbers.

In relation to the 6 axle flat car (DRG classification SSyms) construction of them did not begin until 1942 so they were designed specifically to transport the heavy Tiger tank. Interestingly Thomas Norsks site does not know how many were built, presumably due to the amount of stock that was destroyed on the eastern front.

Ultimately my interest is in the period 1928-1932 in Wurttemberg, so my knowledge of WWII is more just an accident than of serious research. However they are interesting pictures. I had never seen a picture of the tank on the wagon with its transportation tracks on and its battle tracks on the same wagon. For some reason I assumed that the battle tracks would be transported in a seperate wagon due to axel loading constraints. However that being said, depending on the date of the photo is post june 1944, there may have been little concern as to the damage to track due to overloading????

Cheers

John

I would suggest two items that I have:

Trix 22531winter camouflage BR 53 loco
and
Rivarossi HR 6186 canon wagon in winter camouflage.

I am looking for more winter camouflage items to complement these...

The 22531 loco is excellent.

Hi,
Today I posted a review of a car set suitable for the WW2 era, Maerklin #46088.
It is shown under the Reviews of Rolling Stock heading.

https://www.marklin-users.net/forum/posts/t35595-46088---Maerklin-era-II-set-of-rolling-stock

regards
Kimball