Speaking of Trains: From The 2020 Archives:

Lots of domestic duties today, "domestic" including tidying my games room and setting up my table for another game as well as the usual house stuff and errands. I might even get a start on painting something if the various chores leave time, or start a game.....

Anyway, instead of something new, here's a link to a  54mm train game from July 2020.  

Origawn forces had mined the tracks, blown them as a Dominion train passed by, and then opened fire with a battery on the heights, but they hadn't been expecting the cargo to dismount and fight back.....

Here is an excerpt of a 2005 post explaining where the inspiration for the scenario came from: ".......1951 Civil War drama called "Drums in the Deep South". Typical stuff, best friends from West Point now on opposite sides, girl in the middle. However,  one aspect of the movie caught my imagination. The Reb officer has dragged a battery up onto a vertical sided, rocky, hill overlooking a train track feeding Sherman's army, his old Yankee friend of course, is the one given the task of clearing him out. Well, since I now have just such a rocky outcrop, a train, and some toy soldiers...".

Irregular service will continue shortly.....

Incident At Belmont Station

"Were you there Grandpa?"

"Sure thing! I was a Corporal with the Belmont Fusiliers, and we were in the midst of it."

"Let me see......yes, the regular patrol and resupply train was just passing when suddenly,
 the morning was shattered by gunfire! The Oerbergers had broken the truce!
We grabbed our rifles and fell in to wait for orders."

"We figured we'd be sent to reinforce the company of Ross's Rifles that was acting as train guards but before we got our orders, there was a roar and a pile of smoke as the train started to cross the bridge. The  train came to a halt but we cheered when it was clear that the bridge was not going to fall apart wrecking the train."    

"As we crossed the river, Mounted Oerbergers appeared from their hidden lairs and galloped towards the disabled train. Once we opened fire though, they hopped off their horses and replied with a storm of bullets."

Things were looking tight until Larson's Lancers crossed the river. Their trumpeter blew charge and the enemy's horsemen turned and fled. It was the end.   We loaded our rifles, carried the wounded to the town for the medics to treat, and we began to dig graves. 

Sunday Morning Paper Headline

 OERBERG BREAKS THE TRUCE!

A brief telegram has reported that Oerburg has broken the treaty without warning, crossed the border, and ambushed a routine train carrying supplies for her Majesty's frontier posts.  

Details to follow when they are available.