"One thing's for sure, don't use movies for military trains. I roll my eyes every time I see railroad cars vaulting through the air from low speeds like this:"Y
Yes, good ole Hollywood.
This clip is more palatable...
Maybe you could set up a little Hogan's Heroes scene trackside.
"HOGAN'S HEROE'S" is PRECISELY what I was thinking!!! 
These videos of Allied planes strafing German trains are popular but they don't tell about the number of planes that were lost to ground fire and collisions. A lot of pilots were lost.
Yep, attacking trains from a 90-degree angle was way more common.
I once met a P-51 jock who was attacking a train that, much later, they found was loaded with V-2 warheads. He had climbed out after lighting up the locomotive and suddenly his plane was being tossed end-over-end. Once he formed up with the survivors, they realized one had hit something huge. That plane was utterly vaporized, and two others blasted into pieces. It was only after a recon plane happened to get photos of the site the next day they saw the size of the crater and figured out what must have been on board.
Hard to believe 30,000 USAF people died in the ETO/MTO in WW2... absolutely horrific.
J Daddy posted:Hard to believe 30,000 USAF people died in the ETO/MTO in WW2... absolutely horrific.
Yeah, more airmen from the 8th Air Force died that Marines in the Pacific war. The history books don't tell you that.
Punkrockpub posted:"HOGAN'S HEROE'S" is PRECISELY what I was thinking!!!
That would be cool.
Like a birthday gift or something eh? 
Although this layout and train appears to be HO, it is very well done and may provide some inspiration....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh64zxanM3E
