April 13, 201511 yr Guns and trains? Yeah, that will be popular. Steam Trains Were 19th-Century Super-Weapons (War is Boring)
April 13, 201511 yr The Germans did one quite truly crazy rail-mounted artillery piece in the First World War that involved two tracks and a crew of over a thousand. There was also a large number of British locomotives built for use in the invasion of Western Europe in 1944-5. Also don't forget the SS-24 rail-mobile ICBM.
April 13, 201511 yr Author The article is the first in a series, so I expect most or all of those will be mentioned in follow-on articles.
April 26, 201511 yr Actually, there was an 80-cm German weapon used in World War II that took two tracks to run on. Dora
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