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	Railway gun - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A railway gun (also called railroad gun, and formerly called a railgun durring World War I and World War II) is a large artillery piece, designed to be placed on rail tracks.
		The first railway guns of record were constructed and used during the American Civil War.
		Railway guns have been largely rendered obsolete by advances in technology.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Railway_gun (183 words)

	Leopold
		The use of railway guns enabled artillery tacticians to switch heavy artillery from one sector of the front to another with a facility that was denied to more conventional field pieces.
		Railway guns could be quickly concentrated and dispersed as necessay, and by rapid changes of position they could deliver long range harassing fire and remain undetected, by the means then in use, for long periods at a time.
		Thus by 1918 the railway gun was in use by nearly all the major combatants and not the least of these was Germany.
	commandos.strategyplanet.gamespy.com /leopold.html (885 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The first railway guns used in combat were constructed and used during the American Civil War, when guns and mortars were mounted on flatcars and during the Siege of Petersburg.
		France also used improvised railways guns during the Siege of Paris in 1870 and the United Kingdom mounted a few six inch guns on railway cars during the First Boer War intending to bombard forts around Pretoria, but Pretoria was captured before they could be deployed.
		The Second World War saw the final use of the railway gun, with the massive Schwerer Gustav 800 mm gun, the largest artillery gun to be fired in anger, deployed by Germany.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=railway_gun (519 words)

	8-inch Gun Railway Mount M1918 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Originally this gun was mounted on a rail car, however, it was removed from the car for display in a memorial.
		The railway carriages had heavy "outriggers" that would brace the carriage against the shock of the gun firing, and prevent damage to the tracks.
		This image shows the 52nd Coast Artillery firing an 8-inch railroad gun at Fort Story, VA. Note the outriggers to bracing the railroad carriage, which is missing from the gun at Tampa.
	andy_bennett.home.mindspring.com /8-inchrailway.html (238 words)

	Dora, the world's largest railway gun
		The largest gun ever built had an operational career of 13 days, during which a total of 48 shells were fired in anger.
		Two guard companies constantly patrolled the perimeter of the gun position (at one time these companies were Romanian), and at all times there was a small group of civilian technicians from Krupp who dealt with the technical aspects of their monster charge and advised the soldiers.
		After seven shots the target was ready for the attentions of the infantry and the gun crews were then able to turn their attentions to some gun maintenance and a short period of relative rest until 11 june.
	www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com /railgun/Content/Railwayguns/German/Dora%20index.htm (2268 words)

	One35th presents the 28cm K5 railway gun - Eisenbahngeschutz - History of Railway artillery and the K5 Eisenbahn
		The Railway gun has always been particularly attractive to a continental army, since its allows heavy support weapons to be moved rapidly across the country in time of need.
		Pushing the gun mounting along a curved track obviously changed the direction of fire and this was done for coarse pointing, the fine laying being done by the small on-mounting traverse.
		German railway guns fell into two broad groups, those that were the result of long-term development and those that were hurriedly produced as a result so called Sofort-Programm (Crash programme) initiated in 1936 with the object of providing a sizable force of railway guns by the summer of 1939.
	www.one35th.com /model/k5/k5_hist01.htm (967 words)

	Qwika - similar:Paris_Gun
		The Paris Gun was the name of an artillery piece with which the Germans bombarded Paris during World War I. This oversized railway gun was used from March to August 1918.
		A railway gun (also called railroad gun, and formerly called a railgun during World War I and World War II) is a large artillery piece, designed to be placed on rail tracks.
		It is not to be confused with a coilgun (Gauss gun).
	www.qwika.com /rels/Paris_Gun (1517 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - The Paris Gun
		A behemoth, the Paris Gun - regarded by many as the ancestor to the German V3 - was capable of firing shells into the stratosphere from locations as far as 131km from Paris.
		However with only two railway gun mountings actually available just three of the guns were ever in use at any one time, fired from the Forest of Coucy.
		Casualties of the gun's use ran to 256 deaths and 620 wounded, with 88 killed and 68 wounded on Good Friday 1918 alone when a shell landed on the church of St. Sepulchre, causing its collapse while a service was in progress.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/parisgun.htm (429 words)

	hungary
		For enthusiasts of all ages for Railway guns and Armoured trains of all sizes.
		The order was placed to the MAV (Hungarian Railway Company), and they started to build in the MAVAG factory (Budapest), and in the Northern Factory 8 trains using engines of type 377.
		Instead of the machine guns they placed into the rotating tower a 36 M 20 mm heavy rifle, and into the side loop-holes 31 M 8 mm machine guns.
	railwaygun.freeservers.com /armtrain/hungary/hungary.htm (1162 words)

	1918 - The Amiens Gun
		Built in 1904 by Friedrick Krupp, it was originally a German naval gun, until it was modified to be used as a railway gun during the war.
		The "Amiens gun" was later exhibited in Paris before it was sent to England for transport to Australia as a war trophy.
		While the gun's carriage was eventually destroyed, the barrel remains intact, and is on display outdoors at the Australian War Memorial.
	www.awm.gov.au /1918/battles/amiensgun.htm (252 words)

	1/35 28cm Railway Gun Leopold
		The railway is the most useful method to move and deploy large calibre gigantic artillery pieces.
		The outer shell of the lower gun carriage is molded in one piece to ensure rigidity.
		Although the railway wagons are relatively simplified (though with no real loss in quality), the gun with its elevating mechanism is thoroughly detailed and workable.
	www.hlj.com /product/dra6200 (255 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Photo Archive: Big Guns of the Great War
		These were monster guns for the time, in the 12 to 16 inch class (these would grow larger over the course of the war).
		It is interesting to note that several of the large siege guns used against the Belgian fortifications had to be set in concrete before they could be fired due to their massive recoil.
		The gun could be moved relatively quickly along the rail system and the recoil could be dispersed by allowing the carriage to hurtle down the tracks (sometimes up to 100 feet).
	www.worldwar1.com /pharc005.htm (1175 words)

	Gun Plot - Burma Thailand Death Railway, Casualty Stats & Hellfire Pass
		This railway, 415 kilometers long, and built through some of the most inhospitable disease ridden terrain in the world, it was to supply a large Japanese Army in Burma.
		The railway was constructed using an absolute minimum of mechanical equipment and a maximum of human effort.
		It has been written that 'this railway was built at the cost of a life for every sleeper in its 415 Kilometer journey'.
	www.gunplot.net /kwairailway/hellfirepass.html (266 words)

	Vladivostok's Railway Guns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Railway artillery mount of the armoured train "Ataman Churkin" with 152-mm/45 Kanet gun (future railway artillery mount No. 3 of the Railway Coast Artillery Battery No. 2) in 1920.
		During Second World War there were produced the new railway guns on a base of 130-mm guns B-13-2s in the Dalzavod, Vladivostok.
		In August, 1945 130-mm guns of 222-nd division participated in the millitary actions against Japan on the land, operated in the region of railway station Grodekovo.
	fortress.wl.dvgu.ru /eng/railgun_en.htm (618 words)

	Welcome to Landships! - A site for WW1 Military Hardware & WW1 Military Modelling
		Otherwise, the primary targets for these guns were among other things enemy long-range guns, railway yards, depots, road and supply junctions, airfields and big troop concentrations.
		The traverse was nil, requiring the gun to be placed either on a part of railway track - almost invariably curved - pointing in the correct direction, or building special extra railway curves for their use.
		The guns were modified to take advantage of this new technique, which gave them a status between Railway guns and embedded ones, which is shown in their new designation: EB-guns (= Eisenbahn-Bettungsgeschütze).
	www.landships.freeservers.com /5star_kurze-bruno_kit.htm (930 words)

	The Biggest Gun - Gustav
		The forts were made of thick concrete and armor plate, and many of the gun turrets could be raised for firing or lowered flush with the terrain.
		One ideas was to bombard the coast of England, but the gun did not have the quite enough range, and there were no targets on the coast worthy of a seven ton shells anyway.
		A Canadian gun genius name Gerald Bull was working for the United States government on a "super gun" made by welding two World War II sixteen-inch battleship guns together, end to end.
	user.mc.net /~hawk/biggun.htm (2257 words)

	GUNS
		The latter is always based on the gun being on level ground and in some cases with spades being embedded.
		US guns fell into two categories: those provided early in the war as 'stop-gap' equipment until UK guns became available in sufficient quantity and those provided to meet specific requirements later in the war.
		UK received 100 guns in 1942 and 335 later, all were promptly removed from UK service at the end of the war.
	members.tripod.com /~nigelef/gunsintro.htm (2023 words)

	Musée du Mur de l'Atlantique, Audinghen (AW/02)
		The museum is in one of the four gun emplacements ("Turm I") of the German gunsite "Batterie Todt" in Audinghen, Pas de Calais, France.
		It was equipped with very 38cm heavy guns ("38cm S.K. The battery was captured by the Canadian Army on September 9th 1944.
		This means the gun was operated from a railway.
	members.tripod.com /plowwii/uk045.htm (222 words)

	Skylighters, The Web Site of the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion: The Story of the U. S. Army's Soldier-Railroaders in ...
		The mount for the gun was known as the 8-inch Barbette Carriage, a new design, so constructed that 360-degree traverse and 45-degree elevation were possible.
		This type of gun mount was exceptionally vital to defense because of its extreme mobility and the ease and speed with which it could be put into action.
		These guns were mounted on special carriages that could be moved by rail to prepared firing positions.
	www.skylighters.org /wwiirr (730 words)

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		The largest gun ever built was the "Gustav Gun" built in Essen, Germany in 1941 by the firm of Friedrich Krupp A.G. Upholding a tradition of naming heavy cannon after family members, the Gustav Gun was named after the invalid head of the Krupp family - Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach.
		The strategic weapon of its day, the Gustav Gun was built at the direct order of Adolf Hitler for the express purpose of crushing Maginot Line forts protecting the French frontier.
		To accomplish this, Krupp designed a giant railway gun weighing 1344 tons with a bore diameter of 800 mm (31.5") and served by a 500 man crew commanded by a major-general.
	www.5ad.org /gun.htm (457 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Net control again alerted the gun observation posts before firing and then held their key down for five seconds at the instant of firing.
		The gun was so large that it could not be traversed on the mount.
		They did indeed locate the gun and the next day, when it had been run into a tunnel, the Air Corps sealed it up at both ends thus ending it's usefulness to the German war effort.
	www.asa-alpiners.com /leopold.htm (414 words)

	USN Railway Gun Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		These photos, contributed by Brooks Rowlett (brooksar@indy.net), illustrate the large calibre (14") naval guns, known as railway guns, which served on the Western Front.
		The bulk of the photos are taken from The United States Railway Batteries in France, (Naval Historical Center, Washington DC, 1988).
		Another good source (if you can find it!) is the article Development of America's Large Bore Mobile Guns by Robert D. Fritz, in the Number 2, 1973 issue of Warship International.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/wusrw000.htm (86 words)

	One35th prsent the German Heavy Mortar KARL - gerat 040 - History
		Guns I-IV went to the Russian Front in July 1941 with the 628th schwere Artillerie Abteilung.
		Later, four guns were issued to the 833rd schwere Artillerie Abteilung (mot).
		These guns had the names Adam, Eve (1st Batt.) and Thor, Odin (2nd Batt.) The names for guns V and VI were Loki and Ziu.
	www.geocities.com /ssvong/morser/karl_hist.htm (586 words)

	DML Dragon 1/35 28cm K5(E) German Railway gun Leopold
		Towards the end of the war, with air attacks increasing, movement of railway guns became difficult.
		In 1943 a program was began for developing a new type of weapon, a railway gun which could be carried by road if necessary.
		The American nickname for one German 28cm Kanone K5(E) railway gun was "Anzio Annie" or "The Anzio Express".
	www.internetmodeler.com /2003/august/first-looks/DML_Leopold.htm (1321 words)

	Type 90 24cm Railway Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The gun itself was made by Schneider in France and auxiliary equipments were provided in Japan.
		The gun was sent to Manchuria in 1941 for the defense of the Manchuria againt Soviet Union.
		When the Soviets invaded Manchuria in 1945, the gun was in transit to a new position.
	www3.plala.or.jp /takihome/90-24.html (77 words)

	British 13.5"/45 (34.3 cm) Mark V
		Although these guns had a maximum elevation of 20 degrees, as built the prisms in the rangefinders were only good to 15-16 degrees.
		Four guns together with their slides and cradles from the scrapped battlecruiser HMS Tiger were sold to Turkey before the start of World War II, but none were ever delivered.
		These guns were of the standard wire-wound construction and the first 67 of the 206 guns produced still had the forward locating shoulders and lacked the taper fit.
	www.navweaps.com /Weapons/WNBR_135-45_mk5.htm (1371 words)

	Second World War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rheinmetall also built railway guns in 24cm caliber; this one is seen in Northern France, firing at targets in Kent, across the English Channel.
		The 21cm K12 railway gun had the longest range of all the 'superguns' - around 115km (71.5 miles) depending on weather conditions.
		This 38cm gun was derived from a weapon designed for battleships.
	www.aeronautics.ru /archive/wwii/photo_0002.jpg.htm (210 words)

	Etchinghill Railway Tunnel
		The second section of the line was fraught with problems over land purchase and the owner of Bourne Park not wanting the railway anywhere he could see it from the house; so a massive tunnel had to be built.
		Following a period of SR rationalisation the whole length of the Elham Valley line was reduced to single-line working and signal-boxes removed, except for Lyminge which had its signal-box removed in 1937 and replaced by a porter-operated ground frame.
		In 1940 the line from Elham to Canterbury was in army hands; the 18" railway gun "Boche Buster" became stationed at Bishopsbourne and hidden in Bourne Park tunnel.
	www.undergroundkent.co.uk /etchinghill_railway_tunnel.htm (370 words)

	USN Ships--USS West Hosokie (ID # 3695), 1918-1919
		These guns were part of the Naval Railway Battery in France during the final months of World War I. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
		These guns, being returned to the U.S. from France, were employed by the Naval Railway Battery on the Western Front during the final months of World War I. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
		This gun was part of the Naval Railway Battery in France during the final months of World War I. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-w/id3695.htm (796 words)

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