Dear Wolf, Although I have tried to avoid electric locos to keep my collection from getting even more out of hand, I must confess that I have thought seriously...
Hello http://www.eisenbahn-kurier.de/foren/phorum-3.4.3a/read.php?f=9&i=40937&t=40937 shows some information about the russian sleeper from LS-models (a ...
Many thanks to Marcel for the excellent news about the forthcoming 'LS Models' HO gauge Gorlitz-built Russian Sleeping Cars. Presumably the earlier design of...
Mike South schreef: Presumably the earlier design of Ammendorf-built full Russian loading gauge Sleeping Car, Baggage Car and Diner once proposed by 'Heris ...
Speaking of Models, I see the Scale Miniature site shows an image of a P36. This has been a locomotive that has always interested me, and I would be interested...
... There was a plastic model of a P36, without a drive. I could buy a kit some years ago and managed to build around a Bachmann GS4. Both combined are not...
... There was a plastic model of a P36, without a drive. --Is this model still available? Without a drive would suit me fine, as I would expect it would be a...
Found on Ukranews.com/eng The state railways administration Ukrzaliznytsia intends to invest UAH 130 billion in renewing rail rolling stock by 2020. Ukrainian...
Good Morning Marcel and other HO scale Soviet / Russian railway modellers :-) The unpowered but fully finished 'P36' 4-8-4 model loco is 'regularly' available...
Mike, Look here: http://www.modelldepo.com/images/raznoe/em737.4.jpg (change the last digist in 1-6) for more foto's The one who sales it is modelldepo.ru they...
Hello, Bachmann produces a sleeper type YZ22 in h0 scale. Now we all know that the chinese and russian coaches have a lot in common, but are indeed complete...
The Bachmann China YW22 'Hard Sleeper' is remarkably similar in bodyshell layout and detail design to the earlier 1955 design Soviet railways 'Hard Sleeper',...
Dear Wolf, I have found yet another set of drawings. The site is <http://zdrus.narod.ru/stati/0005/vl80t.html> Roy ... the ... drawing. ... obtain ... drawings...
Mike, When I look at the Bachmann model, the site that is not shown in your pictures, it moves away from the drawning you add to the files. are there more...
Still being built. Has been held up a bit by funding problems, but the most recent thing I read was that it will be 2012 at the earliest before it is completed...
... In 2007 BMZ increased its output near 32%, volume of output was 235000000 EUR. BMZ manufactured in 2007: 156 shunting 1200-hp diesel-electric locomotives...
Some years ago I acquired some works photos of Kolomna-built steam locomotives. They were of exceptionally high quality. Does anyone know if, from where, and...
I have a black/white drawing of the right side, top, and front of a Russian 2-6-0 locomotive with road number in cyrillic "HB 9052" which presumeably...
... To be precise, it should be NV (though even more precisely, both the v and V should be suffixes). Class NV had 1900mm driving wheels, and class Nv had...
I wonder if any Russian friends could give me a brief translation of usolmash.ru, regarding what appears to be their plans to produce rail wagons.Even with...
Gentlemen Does anyone know have there sometime published a detailed research of US 5ft railways, their locomotives, and dates when they were regauged to ...
Jukka: The short answer is no. Five feet was standard gauge on many of the carriers south of the Mason Dixon line for many antebellum years. Only of trivial...
Thaks Peter for your very informative answer. Thus it seems the only way to solve how many locomotives actually run on Southern 5ft gauge lines is to compile...
Gentlemen I forgot to mention that regarding the Belgian built tank locomotives the question is of 213 Ct-n2 locomotives, built for Panama Canal Construction....
As a sidebar to the interesting discussion of 5' gauge US railways by Jukka and Peter, these 5' (and other disparate gauge) railways tended to disappear like...
George Rogers Taylor, a noted U.S. economic historian produced a small volume entitled THE AMERICAN RAILROAD NETWORK: 1861-1890, Harvard 1956 (currently in...
China, Kazakhstan: Train sets out for virgin trip The first international passenger train left Astana, capital of Kazakhstan Tuesday afternoon for Urumqi,...
