Hello, All international trains from Russia to Kaliningrad are hauled by Bellarussian diesel engines TEP60 or TEP70 from Russian/Ballarussian border until...
Are there any cases known of class designation changes (painted on loco itself) from Russian to Ukrainian letter E as happens regularly with the ER2 / ER9 ...
Michael.Daut@...
Apr 4, 2005 9:10 am
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If not with the Ukrainian alphabet, perhaps someone can help with those strange looking long ( about 6 to 8 metres ) antenna cables on the roofs of locos and...
Michael.Daut@...
Apr 4, 2005 9:15 am
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... Probably it was antenna cable for locomotive SW radio transmitter 2130 and 2150 kHz. It is an early railroad wireless communication system in USSR, and it...
According to the Transmash Holdings website the Novocherkessk locomotive plant makes an "industrial tractor" NP1 - does anyone know what this is? a wheeled or...
... Mike, Unlike Americans, typical Russians do not take showers daily... Perhaps every other day, or every 3-4 days... -- Dmitry Zinoviev, Assistant Professor...
I've found the Novocherkessk Locomotive Plant website at nevz.com - it turns out an NP1 is a locomotive.May I beg the groups indulgence a moment and ask...
I am leaving tomorrow to Tallinn for a couple days. Anyone interested of American built diesel locomotive list ? Is here anyone who has recently visited at...
Hello, for correct reading of this message please use the character set ISO- 8859-2 East Central Europe. Some time ago there was a posting about the CFM/U® -...
Hi all, I am planning a trip to Ukraine in august , I have some questions which I hope people can answer: Lvov-Drogobych-Truskavec - Which types of locomotives...
Relating to your third question: Spontaneously I would recommend eastern Crimea - the lines to Kerch' and Feodosia. Local trains of considerable length are...
Michael.Daut@...
Apr 20, 2005 5:10 am
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... VL10 and EPL2T, ER2 ... DR1 and M62/2M62 with freight trains. ... There are no plenty ones, but many diesels can be found in Schors (Belarussian TEP60),...
Thank You all for tips to Tallinn. In 1913 the French company Schneider-Creusot started to build a large Russo-Balt Shipyard and Mechanical Workshop at Kopli...
Does anyone here know the actual route of this Lesnaja Steam Tram in St.Petersburg? It seems to have been opened on July 7 1886. Was there any connection...
Can anyone offer any information on the depicted locomotive, apparently at Tomsk in c. August 1918? http://nortvoods.net/rrs/siberia/siberia-f.htm ? The...
Hi Denny, It appears to be a Ph class 0-6-6-0 Mallet, freight locos built for the Trans-Siberian between 1903 and 1916. There is a small 'p' after the 'Ph'...
TimLittler@...
Apr 24, 2005 10:11 pm
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Denny, Further to my last email, the 'p' indicates that the locomotive was built at Putilov armament and locomotive works in St Petersburg. Tim In a message...
TimLittler@...
Apr 24, 2005 10:24 pm
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... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ At http://f27.parsimony.net/forum67958/messages/2052.htm you will see a picture of tramway...
... Thoroughly interesting piece of equipment with a number of graceful design elements, not the least of which are the very modern-looking windows. It looks...