Moving heavy artillery from location to location involves quite an organisation. I always wondered how to change from train track gauges. For instance, to move a German 42cm gamma gun it was split up in several loads. The heaviest still weighted almost 26 ton. To come nearer to the front the train gauges changed from normal to small (1 m Kleinbahn) further to Feldbahn . However in the literature the term Vollbahn is still used to describe the track gauge to the construction 42cm gamma pit. So handeling those extrermely heavy parts on a realitive small gauge seems to me very risky. On the small map you can see that towards Damvillers ( the Meusien rail) is used but to go further they changed over in Etraye to a smaller gauge. Did they used cranes or is there railway stock especially designed to take over? Any advise and or information highly appreciated
-- Edited by Haverba on Tuesday 15th of November 2022 11:13:11 AM
Thank you for your kind reply. The gamma was trasported to it's pit in several loads and the gauge mentioned in the literature used, is Vollbahn, the standard width, but looking at the map there was no Vollbahn to the location... What I'm thinking about is that the mentioned 42cm was not a gamma gun, I could not be brought there due to lack of a suitble train track i.e. Vollbahn Answers also the question of handing this massive gun by changing over to another gauge, I presume it would be very difficult while in fact it was never done..... Regards, Harry
