Railway Gun - Surviving Railway Guns

Surviving Railway Guns

  • A 12" railway gun is preserved at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Virginia, United States (see this link for an image and brief description).
  • A US Navy 14"/50 caliber railway gun from World War I is preserved at Washington Navy Yard, Washington DC, United States.
  • A German 283mm Krupp K5 gun ("Anzio Annie") is displayed at the United States Army Ordnance Museum. It was constructed using parts from two German guns that shelled that Anzio beachhead and were partially destroyed by their crews before being captured by the Allies.
A second 283mm Krupp K5 can be seen at the Todt Battery museum, near Audinghen in northern France.
  • Soviet-era 305mm MK-3-12 guns are preserved at the Krasnaya Gorka fort near Lomonosov, Russia, and the Museum of Railway Technology, Saint Petersburg.
  • Soviet 180mm ТМ-1-180 guns may be seen at Krasnaya Gorka fort, at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow, and at the Railway Station in Sevastopol, Ukraine.
  • The last surviving American-made Bethlehem 177 coastal railway gun is now on display at Museu Militar Conde de Linhares in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  • Krupp K5, United States Army Ordnance Museum

  • Krupp K5, Todt Battery Museum, France

  • MK-3-12, Krasnaya Gorka fort, Russia

  • TM-1-180, Krasnaya Gorka fort

  • MK-3-12, at the Central Museum of Railway Transport, Russian Federation, at Varshavsky Rail Terminal, St.Petersburg

  • TM-1-180 at the Moscow Victory park Museum of the Great Patriotic War

  • Railway gun TMK-3-12 at the Moscow Victory park

  • TM-1-180, Sevastapol, Ukraine

  • Museu Militar Conde de Linhares, Brazil

  • Barrel of German 28 cm Bruno from World War I, at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra

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