Train service during the Vietnam war

[tomrommel1]

I am in the process of building a little railroad for my Vietnam  gaming. I know that there was a main line between Hue and Saigon but I don't know if it was used during the war or not. I presume that it would be a prime target for the VC demolition teams.
Is there any information available ? I would be interested in the type of rolling stock used in Vietnam too.

Thanks!

[commissarmoody]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Vietnam#Wartime

http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/vietnam.Html

Covers more then the US war, but figured it was a good start.

[has.been]

I used to trawl charity shops for old copies of National Geographic.
Issues from the 60s could be had for 50p. I feel sure there were
articles about the railways (& other things like the plans for Hydro-
Electric power) that were during American involvement.
Others might be able to advise how to look for those articles 'on-line'.

[tomrommel1]

thanks guys for pointing me to a start

[Ewan]

Pages 109 to 111 may be of use
https://history.army.mil/html/books/090/90-6/CMH_Pub_90-6.pdf

[carlos marighela]

Railways and the war in SVN:

http://www.historicvietnam.com/rails-through-viet-nam-1969-2/

If you are going to game with railways in SVN, you’ll want to build or source some Wickham armoured draisines. The SVN government bought a number of these from Britain who had used them in Malaya. They were used to patrol the working sections of line.

https://www.flickriver.com/groups/4361757@N24/pool/interesting/

https://www.armedconflicts.com/Armoured-Wickham-Trolley-AWT-t21088

I know there's a 1/72 kit out there but in this scale you are most likely looking at a scratch build.

[tomrommel1]

Thanks for the links that will keep me at the workbench for a while

[tomrommel1]

So thanks to you lot I got plans for the Wickham trolly . I will try and build one from scratch but for the first time , for me, I'll try it with a 3D program to generate eventually an stl file for one. Will post the progress here.

[Poiter50]

 

So thanks to you lot I got plans for the Wickham trolly . I will try and build one from scratch but for the first time , for me, I'll try it with a 3D program to generate eventually an stl file for one. Will post the progress here.