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Railroad Forum

Should we have a Railroad Forum?

  • Sure, I don't see why not, we have tanks and few own them.

    Votes: 54 84.4%
  • Nope, trains is dumb!

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Ferro is nuts

    Votes: 9 14.1%

  • Total voters
    64

juanprado

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The southern forest heritage museum close to Alexandria, LA highlights the history of Camp Claiborne and the training grounds for the WWII troops that trained to run the railroads on Europe.

Lots of WWII memorabilia and exhibits in the main museum and surrounding buildings. Also cool forestry, logging saw mill, and rail equipment of the era.

Cool place to visit if your travels on I-49 take you through South Alexandria.
 

msgjd

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Looks like an M52, perhaps. Almost certainly M39-series based. Pretty cool, never seen one of those before. [thumbzup]

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yes you are correct it is a M52(a1 or a2) .. short wheelbase, 55g tank(s), and the trailer air hose/elec rack can be seen alongside the tell-tale vertical pioneer rack ...

never seen one myself, would be interesting to know whether this was a specific TAACOM build, or a shop mod .. I wonder what's in the weight box .. Cement? Lead? ilmenite? Gold? :LOL:
 

Tracer

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yes you are correct it is a M52(a1 or a2) .. short wheelbase, 55g tank(s), and the trailer air hose/elec rack can be seen alongside the tell-tale vertical pioneer rack ...

never seen one myself, would be interesting to know whether this was a specific TAACOM build, or a shop mod .. I wonder what's in the weight box .. Cement? Lead? ilmenite? Gold? :LOL:
msgjd, several years ago, one of our members posted some pictures of these converted M52 rail trucks taken in South Korea when he was stationed there.
 
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