[Freiwillige]

I was just watching a youtube video about P-47's straffing trains and some of them really blew up! Im guessing that those would be the munitions trains. Anyhow it gave me an idea to throw at y'all. Could a train car be modded to have a 2000 pound bomb effect when straffed? That would be cool and it would make straffing runs on trains in normandy a bit dangerous as it was historically cause you never know which train is gonna make the big boom! hock:

[KG64_Ðørvånski]

good idea! currently they sort of collapse into bent metal, with a purple puff of smoke. +1

[fabianfred]

with a little tinkering in the technics.ini the trains and static planes get a secondary explosion and smoke

[Guest]

I thought trains do explode after being hit? I was doing some strafing last night of a train and a few seconds after getting the "Train Car Destroyed" message, it explodes. Not damaging but still it's there. Would be interesting though to get as many trains did car explosive ordinance

[MB-BOB]

The explosions you see in strafing footage usually is the locomotive engine exploding, not ammunition cargo. Notice in the footage that the pilot is targeting the locomotive itself, not the freight cars.

WWII trains were pulled by steam engines... Their weakness was that any shell penetrating the steam jacket on the main body of the loco will vent super heated water vapor to the outside air in huge 10-20 meter long water and steam jets. Hit with enough holes the result is a complete compromise of the steam jacket, resulting in comprehensive steam explosion.

Yes, it would be neat to see this effect in game... like the same feedback one gets in watching pieces fly off an aircraft prior to it exploding. But I guess it might be difficult and time consuming to do.

[Fisneaky]

I got this effect on my Gunpowder van using:-

[buildings.House$TrainGunpowder]
Title Gunpowder
MeshLive 3do/Buildings/Rail/Gunpowder/body.sim
MeshDead 3do/Buildings/Rail/Gunpowder_Dmg/body.sim
AlignToLand 1
Body FuelBig
Panzer 0.28

It does cause a chain reaction when strafed. Blast lifted tail of Bf110 when testing. . . .

[Freiwillige]

The explosions you see in strafing footage usually is the locomotive engine exploding, not ammunition cargo. Notice in the footage that the pilot is targeting the locomotive itself, not the freight cars.

WWII trains were pulled by steam engines... Their weakness was that any shell penetrating the steam jacket on the main body of the loco will vent super heated water vapor to the outside air in huge 10-20 meter long water and steam jets. Hit with enough holes the result is a complete compromise of the steam jacket, resulting in comprehensive steam explosion.

Yes, it would be neat to see this effect in game... like the same feedback one gets in watching pieces fly off an aircraft prior to it exploding. But I guess it might be difficult and time consuming to do.

Thats not what I am talking about, although its a great effect in its self. I have seen the differance. Nooo this effect im talking about is definately the train car (About middle train) going kablooey!
I even read an article recently about P-51's spotting a camoflaged train and attacking it. On about the 4th pass the explosion was so large it took out the mustang attacking it and the flight leader said it had lifted his plane up sever hundred feet even know he was alrady at several thousand feet up. They speculated that the train was carrying V-1 rocket fuel. And he said it blew debris past his aircraft.