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...
Gentlemen KPEV G8 1056 locomotives ( + nearly direct copy for Warsaw-Wien Railway built by Kolomna.TCDD 44.101-108 were ex Warsaw-Wien locomotives ) KPEV G8.1...
Gentlemen. I wonder where my thinkings were when I wrote recarding the Pennsylvania K4s Pacifics.Of course the question,when climbing up the Horseshoe Curve...
Gentlemen There has been several times question of how many 1524 mm gauge locomotives the Germans were able to capture during their 1942 summer offensive...
We read from this post, and more extensively from other sources how during WWII how 1524 mm. gauge steam locomotives were changed to 1435 mm. and vice versa....
... Have a lok at http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c63/bengts/Hjul/52/2.jpg http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c63/bengts/Hjul/52/1.jpg The wheels were pressed...
For those interested in the subject of US steam express locomotives mentioned below there is a unique and affordable text by Howard Hill ,to whit, RIDING THE ...
On <parovaz.com/gallery>, I found photos of an armoured train locomotive and tender displayed at Saratov. It is based on a 0-10-0 Eu locomotive numbered...
There was an article in Zheleznodorozhnoe Delo (Railroad Affairs) magazine , 2, 2006, about Baldwin "Db" Lend-Lease locomotive in USSR. They wrote, the remains...
Hello Oleg! Thank you very much for alerting us to this news. It is indeed very exciting news! I have tried to write to you about this, but all of my e-mail to...
Peter Bergs wrote: Hello Peter! ... I have tried to send to you some new pictures of Db in 2005, but your server answered me "User unknown". Have you any other...
Gentlemen At the beginning of 1914 Russian Railways had on books 20057 locomotives of which 3823 were passenger locomotives and 16234 freight locomotives.This...
Please delete the earlier version. Gentlemen At the beginning of 1914 Russian Railways had on books 20057 locomotives of which 3823 were passenger locomotives...
Gentlemen At the beginning of 1914 Russian Railways had on books 20057 locomotives of which 3823 were passenger locomotives and 16234 freight locomotives.This...
Hello, I looks for a photographer, who lives in Moscow and could for me pictures of this locomotive in Scherbinka make. One can still constitute details then....
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