From the first to the last picture it is 7 minutes. The pictures show the building site for a new bridge over a river at aprox km 6445. Probably the river name...
I was traveling in a train from Baku to Tbilisi behind a VL6 loco. When looking at the loco in Baku I dicowered that the bogies were coupled together in a way...
Gentlemen ! Many of us know the steam loco memorial at this once terminus of Berlin-S-Bahn trains - line. But now fewer wondered what it has to do there. For...
Michael.Daut@...
Jul 4, 2007 9:05 am
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Railway Gazette July 2007, page 438: "Earlier this year Ziyang turned out the DF8DJ, a six-axle design for Chinese Railways, powered by a Caterpillar 3516...
Some pictures from Aktau http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c63/bengts/diesel/Kaz/1.jpg http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c63/bengts/diesel/Kaz/2.jpg ...
Many thanks Bengt for your excellent photos of 2M62U#0371 in Aktau. Detail photographs of the 'blind' / cabless / intermediate ends of all Soviet multi-section...
... Yes, there were many forest lines near Boyarka and Belichi, but now all of them dismounted. Only a few meters of memorial railway exists now. ... There...
... No, but there's a more powerful Americal locomotive, EMD DDA40X, with 6600 hp. Soviet locomotives get more power with sectioning, for example, 3TE10M locos...
One difference is the DDA40X has two engines, not one. It should be technically possible to build a locomotive using two GE 12-cylinder GEVO engines, rated at...
See this explanatory site- Re: the Union Pacifics excursions into gigantic DE locos. As noted here in prior postings all had multiple diesels driving their ...
The Cat 3516 cannot deliver more than 4000 hp Perhaps a Cat 3612 could deliver 6000 hp but the weight would break the Chinese rails cheers, and my warmest...
kryopak
kryopak@...
Jul 18, 2007 1:04 pm
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The loco on the pictures have the bearing caps on both sides on axles 2 and 3 in one of the bogies conected by bars as can bee seen on pictures. Is it a test...
The front page on Lok-Report 8/2007 show a North Korean loco, 1.5- 13,with a SA3-coupler on the normal russian height 1040 mm. In the coupler an AAR-type...
I have a DVD recently purchased from Revelation Videos here in USA about N Korean railways. I'll look at it again to see what type of couplers are used on...
John Lassahn
JohnLassahn@...
Aug 3, 2007 6:21 pm
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Hi @ all, does anybody know what kind of trains normaly take the route form Moscow to St. Petersburg? I'm talking about the route where the bomb exploded 2...
China, North- and Southkorea use AAR-style semi-automatic couplers at 870 mm height (23,25 inches). Russia and other 1520 mm guage countries have the fully...
You describe the AAR style coupler as "semi-automatic" and the SA3 as fully automatic. I have used the AAR coupler in my railroad career. It couplers...
John Lassahn
JohnLassahn@...
Sep 1, 2007 3:09 am
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... as fully automatic. I have used the AAR coupler in my railroad career. It couplers automatically when the cars are banged together and uncouples with slack...
I have now added plenty of photos from my trips to the baltic states, Ukraine, Moldova and Russia. http://www.youthwith.fotopic.net See the Former USSR...
Also reported on the FOL News website (in Italian - at http://www.ferrovie.it/ferrovie.vis/timdettvp.php?id=2394 ). In addition to what is given below: they...
About three months ago I went by a train-ferry from Aktau to Baku across the Kaspian see. The ferry was not the best one I have gone with. It carries...
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c63/bengts/resa/35.jpg A L-type loco. On the crank-pin is a bushing(?) with a lot of holes. Is that the bearing-bushing or...
Good Afternoon All (and 'Happy Thanksgiving' to all Canadian readers**), Re: the forthcoming 'HaiDar' China Rail HO scale 'DF3' Co-Co diesel models.... ...
... This engine is now in St.Petersburg Railway Museum at ex-Warsaw railway station, which is nicknamed by railwaymen and railfans simply 'Warshava'. ;-) Dan ...
Thanks, Thats great! So I think, next year was traveltime to St. Petersburg railwaymuseum!!! Thomas ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
