"Engineers wagons. Train d'artillery or d'equipage?" Topic

I've worked out ambulances are drawn by train d'equipage while pontoons are part of artillery so train d'artillery.

What about engineers wagons and general supply wagons?

Just bought engineers wagons from Blue Moon so my engineers had material and the couple companies don't get swallowed up in a battle.

Engineers, meaning Genie, had their own complement of draughts.
Brown was a colour that stuck with them to distinguish from the increasingly used 'steel-blue' of the artillery corps.
I'd have to get a source or model out, but I'm fairly sure brown habit with blue facings with some piped red, at least early Empire.
regards davew

The engineer train was organized between 1806 and 1811 as a single battalion and was modeled on the artillery train. The battalion had six war companies and one depot company.

The companies usually served separately to support the sapeur battalions as well as the engineer parks.

The uniform was the usual gris de fer (iron grey) of train troops with black facings of the engineer arm. Apparently, the trumpeters wore the same uniform distinguished by broad white braid on the lapels, cuffs, and collar and they wore a buff waistcoat.

As already said by SHaT1984 the engineers had their own organisation of drivers. The basic dress of the Train du Genie was the same as that of the Train d'Artillerie but faced black instead of dark blue.

Here's some useful illustrations.

Note that the pontonneers were part of the artillery and thus pontoon wagons were driven by the Train d'Artillerie.

Ok I should check before I speech… ;-(

Got part right… what 'I' did was paint my own single genie 'conducteurs' caisson in liver brown reminiscent of earlier Rev. period 'charriers'. Apologies for confusion (another photo needed).
Still- thats the 'regulated' uniform @ 1806ish, I must have some reason for doing what I did.
d

Thanks all. Another set of uniforms to paint then.

@SHaT1984 – this is may be where you picked up your brown idea – train d'equipages

1 – Charretier 1804
2 – Charretier 1806
3 – sous officer 1808 (after Zimmerman)
4 & 5 – soldats du train vers 1808 (after Bourgeois de Hambourg)
6 – Tenue de route 1808-13
7 – Grande tenue 1808-13
8 – Collier d'attelage de derriere
9 – harnachement a l'allemande de sous-verge de derriere
10 – harnachement de sous-verge de devant
11 – ouvrier du train. Espagne 1811
12 – ouvrier du train 1814 d'apres Valmont
13 – soldat du train 1813 d'apres Valmont
14 – tenue de campagne 1813-14
15 – tenue en manteaux-capote 1813-14
16 – conducteur de voiture legere ou d'ambulance. Harnachement de limons a la francaise.

PoE
You are exactly correct mon cher ami,
I should consult sources before placing boot in mouth!
Even my 'garde' train I have just given a red plume and added red trefoils to shoulders- fancy dress reserved for the gunners!
d:-)ve