Cdn Mil Vehs

Roger

A noble subject and I look forward to watching as it progresses.

If I may offer a few observations from my time as a soldier.  Your fleet is generic and covers a considerable timeframe with some vehicles that wouldn't be seen together.  That said, it is your layout and I encourage you to go for it.  Nothing as impressive as a special move of Army vehicles going through the yard.  

The LAV-R and LAV-C2 are USMC vehicles but are very close to the Canadian Bison.  Good stand ins for the project.  The LAV-25 (second from left) is close to the Coyote reconnaissance vehicle.  For the LAV fleet, leave the front trim vanes and rear propeller units off and add small fuel tanks/storage boxes instead.  For the softskin trucks, the Roco US M35 deuce is the basis of the Canadian MLVW.  Leave the vertical exhaust stack in front of the cab off.  The dualie rear wheels should be singles, but what the heck.  For the LSVW try a Unimog U1300 cargo.  A tad large but the cab lines are similar.  There are no off the shelf models of the HLVW that I know of.  If you are up for it, I think Roco does an N scale Leopard recovery tank.

For the loadout, as you are showing a mix of tactical units, keeps the vehicles types together.  i.e. all the Leopards as one group, the M109s as another.  The M113s could go with either the tanks or the guns.  The LAV-C2 (Bison) and LAV-25 (Coyote) would be a good group.  For railcars, the Leopards and M109s would go on 60' heavy flats such as HTTX.  I believe CN runs similar flats.  The wheeled vehicles (LAVs and softskins) can travel on 89's such as ITTX.  The M113s can go either way.  In my days we would put a recovery vehicle at each end of the train.  This would allow for a maintenance vehicle to be first off regardless of the direction of delivery and thus able to handle any problem vehicles.  In N scale, for the tiedown chains you can probably get away with a rust coloured heavy thread.  Search for TEA Pamphlet 55-19 to get an idea on how to lash the vehicles to the railcars.  

Have fun.

Bob A

Thanks. This is great info.

Thanks. This is great info. Appreciate the tip on dual recovery vehicles. Expecting this to be a long WIP as there is considerable “fine tuning” needed. Cheers. Roger

TEA Pamphlet 55-19

Download:  http://tacsafe.net/resources/Tactical/MTMCTEAPam55-19.pdf

And  https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/11749858/tiedown-handbook-for-rail-movements-sddctea-us-army is readable, though not downloadable. Resolution is low, so screencaps are poor. 

Great stuff. I do not now, nor do I plan to model military rail movements, but worth going through the pamphlet to see how it's done. And, trains. 

Nice!

I'm looking forward to seeing more progress.

I had a small hand in selecting Canadian LAVs as the interim vehicle before the Stryker armored vehicles came out of the factory, for the US Army during the transition for the first Stryker Brigade. I'm very familiar with the Canadian LAV3s, though it's been several years...

rail tiedown download

https://www.metabunk.org/attachments/pam_55-19_63_edition-pdf.14671/