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Jan 6, 2007 10:22 am
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Is there somewhere in Internet to see the meassurements for wheel-sets for 1520 and 1524 mm Guage? Dimensions liked to know is back to back (inside)of the...
I would start in the technical specification for interoperability (which is also available in Swedish). Whilst I can't confirm positively that the info you...
For several years I have been trying to identify the little 750mm Bt+T loco, numbered Ak-1721, preserved at the children's railway in Tbilisi in Georgia....
Does anyone have timings for the direct coach(es) Chisinau-Minsk and v.v. which was (were) introduced after the cancellation of the train 71/72 Minsk-Chisinau...
In the beginning of april I will enter China by rail. I like to have a good look att the work place where bogies are changed under freight cars. Someone who...
Gentemen Yesterday Helsingin Sanomat, the largest Finnish newspaper, published a shortened version on column "Helsingin Sanomat 100 years ago " of the Russian...
Does anybody have the information in which period the trains operated during summer 2006, and if train 190 Sevastopol'-Moskva ever conveyed the direct coach...
Just shortly: According to the news bulletin Hamburger Blaetter a new rail ferry connection has been opened between Mukran (D) and a Russian port, must be...
Michael.Daut@...
Jan 31, 2007 2:52 pm
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Would it be correct to refer to the lineage of the Chinese QJ's as coming from the Russian FD, which were themselves derived from the Tb class 2-10-2's...
Doug, For my view, the QJ is from the same time as the Lv and has some features from this engine. The dimensions look more like a FD. I think you can say that...
For railway modelers, the Nürnberg toy fair is allways the exciting moment, where new models are announced And as usual, very limited Russian models. Besites...
A recent article in 'Trains' magazine stated that the Chinese QJ class was, at 4700, the world's third most numerous class of steam loco (after the Russian E...
Somewhere I have seen figures that make tho O -class locos the most numerous class of steam locos in the world, the E-class as second and the german 50 + 52...
Well, I think it depends whether or not you lump all the type E 0-10-0's (E, Eu, Em, Er) together, and likewise with all the type O 0-8-0's (Od, Ov etc). "You...
Another biggie is the German P8 4-6-0. Several thousand were built and the design was also built for other customers so I am not sure of the grand total. It...
... and the ... grand ... P8 - The overall total is generally given as 3,956 (which includes the 230 built under licence by Resita and Malaxa in Roumania). Of...
In Dec.83 I crossed from China to Mongolia. The bogie change was a long way from the station. Once in it, the workers were happy for me to alight from my...
Gentlemen I become interested of the P8 2C-h2 total as Eddie shows 3956 locos. The most reliable German figure is 3948 but for this we must add at least one (...
Gentlemen Some figures which might be of interest of steam locomotives. No doubt Russian E-h2 class E was the world´s most numerous locomotive class of which...
The figure of 3956 is taken from Eisenbahn-Kurier Special 80, "100 Jahre Prussische P8" published last year. I have not reconciled all the builders totals (I...
Thinking about this topic last night I scribbled some figures on the back of an envelope Soviet E. Taking Rakov's figures for E, Eg, Esh and Button's figures ...
One further class to remember is Kolomna P24 + PT-4 and Kf-4 from Finland + Votkinsk VP-1/2/4 + Kch-4 from Czechoslovakia + Kv-4 from Hungary + Kp-4 from...
Please do not assume that all 2-10-2's built in the U.S. were the same. They were not. Except for those built to USRA designs, which were more-or-less ...
... The total is very dependent on the total of VP locos built by Votkinsk, which only seems known by interpolation from observed numbers. Does anyone have a ...
Durrent (Steam Locos of Eastern Europe) quotes 'over 5000' as the total for the Prussian G8/1. Given that we are grouping the various Russian O & E types...