Gentlemen I have heard some source say that locomotive AA20-1 2G2-h2 had works plates Voroshilovgrad 4000 / 1934 Can anyone confirm? Jukka Nurminen Helsinki...
Is there any website that gives information on new rail lines being built in Russia? Do the railway construction troops have their own site? Thanks. LS....
Gentlemen Yesterday RZD and VR signed the foundation protocol of new joint venture " Karelian Trains Company " here in Helsinki.At present were also President...
Sirs ! In the german journal „modelleisenbahner“ 11/06 there was a short picture story about TE2-041, the silver Gagarin celebrity. It’s shown there in...
A list of photos offered for sale by Yuri Akimov (www.comail.ru/~bahn) during April 2005 included a 3TE3-(0004??) section photographed at Kandalaksha depot...
Gentlemen There was before the October Revolution a Swedish owned saw mill along the 1067 mm gauge Vologda-Archangel line of Russian Northern Railway. Does...
Gentlemen The question is of: KeSt 2462 1915 Cst-n2 609 6x9 20 Martin Olsson & Sons,Archangel,Russia However,another search have resulted a entirely new...
... Sons,Archangel,Russia 600mm (2ft) gauge, actually a "Wren" type 0-4-0ST delivered 02/11/1915. Other than that, very little information. I take it that ...
Dear Friends of Russian Transit, For many years I collected models of Russian buses, trolleys and trolleybuses from many companies, in addition to St...
Gentlemen BECOS Could it be British Export Commission Of Supply? Jukka Nurminen Helsinki Finland [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... Sounds about right. There is a works photgraph of one of the pair in "Hudswell Clarke & Co. Ltd - A Pictorial Album of Narrow Gauge Locomotives"....
Ab Becos Oy was a Helsinki (Finland) based machinery brokers/agency bought by English businessmen and factories in 1918. It was aiming for markets in...
After reading my own message, I started wonder about the Marshall works numbers and found my original source for that information, which might be a typing...
... Not sure if this is the same concern. The photo referred to shows a name-plate (possibly owner's identification) 'B.E.C.O.S.' which suggests an acronym....
Another reference [http://www.autogallery.org.ru/m/ppreru.htm] identifies Becos = British Equipment Company of Siberia, in existence around 1919 as a maker of...
I've added a list compiled from various sources of steam locomotives built in the UK and supplied to industry or contractors in Russia to the "Files" section. ...
My previous post has got me thinking about the 26 Beyer Peacock tank locomotives supplied via Arcos Ltd. to Soviet Russia in 1933 as part of the first Stalin...
My grandfather worked for about two years for a swedish company building one or two saw-mills in Kovda. My gradfather(my fathers father or farfar as we say in...
... src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c63/bengts/slakt/FKovda.jpg"> ... When the work was finished there was no railway built yet so they had to walk to...
Gentlemen The only place I have traced from the maps nearby Vologda - Archangel Railway whose name was near Kovda is Kovsha ( Kovzha ) on the Kovsha ( Kovzha )...
As part of larger 'estate sale' purchase I today acquired a duplicate copy to my own of the David & Charles 1972 classic hardback book 'Russian Steam...
Gentlemen Since I asked more information of Persian / Iranian Enzeli Steam Tramway I have received number of e-mails directed to my e-mail address from several...
Those of you who still fondly imagine that you are soon going to receive your long awaited Bachmann China HO scale China Rail YW22 Hard Sleepers, CA23*...
'Owing to the gratifying number of off-list responses ("Yes, Virginia, there ARE Russian Ho coach modellers out there!"), I have added a Folder of scale...
The US wholesaler for the above , as well as other non North American based BACHMANN train models, is MODELS 11 in San Antonio, Texas. Good-Luck, Peter Boylan...
Please can somebody more knowledgeable than I assist, as I'm confused! After WWII/The Great Patriotic War, Russia acquired as 'war booty' a German SVT 137...
Mike, SVT 137 153 is type ‘Leipzig” It is 3 sektion with Jacobs drehgestellen, each train set has 4 boogies Total 4 were build: 137 153 and 154 with...
Gentlemen Now,when Father Christmas have already left his gift workshop at Korvatunturi in Lapland with his reideer hauled " pulkka " to make his annual visit...