A trench railway was a type of railway that represented military adaptation of early 20th-century railway technology to the problem of keeping soldiers supplied during the static trench warfare …

The War Department Light Railways were a system of narrow gauge trench railways run by the British War Department in World War I. Light railways made an important contribution to the …

Davenport built a number of locomotives for the United States Army including World War I trench railways, the USATC S100 Class 0-6-0 of World War II, and eighteen larger switcher …

Trench Railways represented military adaptation of early 20th century railway technology to the problem of keeping soldiers supplied during the static trench warfare phase of World War I.

Beginning in 1918, The Davenport Locomotive Works produced eighty 60cm (2ft gauge) 2-6-2 steam locomotives intended to be sent to the narrow-gauge trench railways in France during …

Probably the most famous British trench locomotive of the war is the armoured version of Motor Rail's Simplex. Over nine hundred of these petrol locomotives were delivered to the War …

This Baldwin Class 10 Trench 2-6-2 "Prairie" tank engines were a series of steam locomotives built in the United States between 1917-1919 to be used during WWI. Operating on quickly …

More than 10,000 diminutive locomotives and uncounted cars moved millions of tons of material forward to the trenches and returned with tens of thousands of wounded soldiers. All the major …

Here are some pictures of a recently restored 2ft gauge Davenport 2-6-2 trench locomotive operating on a private railway on California's Central Coast. The locomotive was completed by …

Built in 1918 as works number 1695, U.S. Army No. 5240 is one of eighty Baldwin Class 10 2-6-2T steam locomotives that were produced by the Davenport Locomotive Works from their Iowa …