Russian railway artillery

38 photos of an armoured 0-8-0 loco, wartime rolling stock and railway guns including a 480 tonne 305mm (12 inch) mounting.

Replica German track wrecking hook, Great Patriotic War Museum, Moscow, 29 August 2015. The hook breaks the sleepers (ties) causing the rails to spread. In use it would be very heavily ballasted to a weight of 30 tonnes, and would be hauled very slowly by one or two locos. The hooks were used from 1943 as the Germans began to retreat on the Eastern Front. This replica was built for the museum in 1995.

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Replica German track wrecking hook, Great Patriotic War Museum, Moscow, 29 August 2015. The hook breaks the sleepers (ties) causing the rails to spread. In use it would be very heavily ballasted to a weight of 30 tonnes, and would be hauled very slowly by one or two locos. The hooks were used from 1943 as the Germans began to retreat on the Eastern Front. This replica was built for the museum in 1995.