Phil - to answer your question, I believe I've seen something like this before posted on RP.net and I think what you took a photo of is a military Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) used to transport a squad of men to another location quickly by rail. It might also be a "Command Car" used to transport military Generals and other military officers by rail. But it is definitely a military vehicle. Nice capture of a very useful piece of railroad equipment.
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Looks like an armoured vehicle on rails, Probably belongs to the government.
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I wouldn't want to try to beat it to a crossing....
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| Posted by LJ on July 8, 2016 | |
Yes, this is a formally wheeled APC retrofitted with trucks for the rail. It's very reminiscent of an older model GM (early '90's) product, but the engine compartment is not quit right.
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Hi If you go to Railpictures 492004 there is more info. Richard
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I would have to agree with others that this is a military vehicle. In the next large town from the small village in Michigan I live in there's a factory that makes trucks that look very similar to the main part of this machine.
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'Would have made for an impressive payroll-car.
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Phil, this unit has SAR/SAS markings, it was operated by the South African Railways when it still ran the railway system in the former South West Africa and was probably used during the time of the "Border war", prior to S.W.A. becoming the independent nation of Namibia. It was most likely used to patrol the railway between Windhoek and Grootfontein, along which equipment and troops were regularly moved by the SAR for the old S.A.D.F. (South African Defence Force). There is a similar machine in the National Railways of Zimbabwe Museum in Bulawayo, which was operated by the Rhodesia Railways for the Rhodesian Army, prior to that country becoming Zimbabwe.
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This is what I imagine it would be like if Batman owned a railroad. . .
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