From the first to the last picture it is 7 minutes. The pictures show the building site for a new bridge over a river at aprox km 6445. Probably the river name...
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Bengt Dahlberg
spv1435
Jul 4, 2007 8:04 am
I was traveling in a train from Baku to Tbilisi behind a VL6 loco. When looking at the loco in Baku I dicowered that the bogies were coupled together in a way...
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Jānis Eiduks
j_eiduks
Jul 4, 2007 8:42 am
Look here http://www.train-deport.by.ru/electrovoz/texotdel/VL8-1.htm ... Jaanis...
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Michael.Daut@...
Jul 4, 2007 9:05 am
Gentlemen ! Many of us know the steam loco memorial at this once terminus of Berlin-S-Bahn trains - line. But now fewer wondered what it has to do there. For...
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Bengt Dahlberg
spv1435
Jul 4, 2007 6:38 pm
Railway Gazette July 2007, page 438: "Earlier this year Ziyang turned out the DF8DJ, a six-axle design for Chinese Railways, powered by a Caterpillar 3516...
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Bengt Dahlberg
spv1435
Jul 14, 2007 6:34 am
Some pictures from Aktau http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c63/bengts/diesel/Kaz/1.jpg http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c63/bengts/diesel/Kaz/2.jpg ...
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Mike South
ridleyhill
Jul 14, 2007 6:43 pm
Many thanks Bengt for your excellent photos of 2M62U#0371 in Aktau. Detail photographs of the 'blind' / cabless / intermediate ends of all Soviet multi-section...
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Serguei Trouchelle
angryxpeh
Jul 18, 2007 10:01 am
... Yes, there were many forest lines near Boyarka and Belichi, but now all of them dismounted. Only a few meters of memorial railway exists now. ... There...
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Serguei Trouchelle
angryxpeh
Jul 18, 2007 10:36 am
... No, but there's a more powerful Americal locomotive, EMD DDA40X, with 6600 hp. Soviet locomotives get more power with sectioning, for example, 3TE10M locos...
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DougCummings
ihp98230
Jul 18, 2007 11:39 am
One difference is the DDA40X has two engines, not one. It should be technically possible to build a locomotive using two GE 12-cylinder GEVO engines, rated at...
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cripete
Jul 18, 2007 12:33 pm
See this explanatory site- Re: the Union Pacifics excursions into gigantic DE locos. As noted here in prior postings all had multiple diesels driving their ...
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kryopak
kryopak@...
Jul 18, 2007 1:04 pm
The Cat 3516 cannot deliver more than 4000 hp Perhaps a Cat 3612 could deliver 6000 hp but the weight would break the Chinese rails cheers, and my warmest...
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Bengt Dahlberg
spv1435
Jul 20, 2007 10:35 am
The loco on the pictures have the bearing caps on both sides on axles 2 and 3 in one of the bogies conected by bars as can bee seen on pictures. Is it a test...
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Bengt Dahlberg
spv1435
Aug 1, 2007 6:09 am
The front page on Lok-Report 8/2007 show a North Korean loco, 1.5- 13,with a SA3-coupler on the normal russian height 1040 mm. In the coupler an AAR-type...
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cdttsa
Aug 1, 2007 7:54 pm
Could anyone give an update on the progress of the rail line across the Yamal peninsula and the Urengoi region?Thanks, LS....
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John Lassahn
JohnLassahn@...
Aug 3, 2007 6:21 pm
I have a DVD recently purchased from Revelation Videos here in USA about N Korean railways. I'll look at it again to see what type of couplers are used on...
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Thomas Düngefeld
br232mo
Aug 15, 2007 12:35 pm
Hi @ all, does anybody know what kind of trains normaly take the route form Moscow to St. Petersburg? I'm talking about the route where the bomb exploded 2...
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Bengt Dahlberg
spv1435
Aug 19, 2007 7:27 am
China, North- and Southkorea use AAR-style semi-automatic couplers at 870 mm height (23,25 inches). Russia and other 1520 mm guage countries have the fully...
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John Lassahn
JohnLassahn@...
Sep 1, 2007 3:09 am
You describe the AAR style coupler as "semi-automatic" and the SA3 as fully automatic. I have used the AAR coupler in my railroad career. It couplers...
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Bengt Dahlberg
spv1435
Sep 1, 2007 7:03 am
... as fully automatic. I have used the AAR coupler in my railroad career. It couplers automatically when the cars are banged together and uncouples with slack...
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Timo Valtonen
timovaltonen
Sep 5, 2007 2:15 pm
Press release from Karelian Trains: http://www.kareliantrains.fi/en/index/news.html News 5.9.2007 KARELIAN TRAINS ORDERS HIGH-SPEED TRAINS FOR HELSINKI-ST...
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Mark Torkington
youthwithatt...
Sep 5, 2007 5:31 pm
I have now added plenty of photos from my trips to the baltic states, Ukraine, Moldova and Russia. http://www.youthwith.fotopic.net See the Former USSR...
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Jeremy Harrison
jeremygharrison
Sep 5, 2007 6:17 pm
Also reported on the FOL News website (in Italian - at http://www.ferrovie.it/ferrovie.vis/timdettvp.php?id=2394 ). In addition to what is given below: they...
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cdttsa
Sep 14, 2007 3:15 am
Is it possible to obtain updates on Russian rail line developments on any site?Thanks, LS...
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Bengt Dahlberg
spv1435
Sep 16, 2007 11:55 am
About three months ago I went by a train-ferry from Aktau to Baku across the Kaspian see. The ferry was not the best one I have gone with. It carries...
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Bengt Dahlberg
spv1435
Oct 6, 2007 6:46 am
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c63/bengts/resa/35.jpg A L-type loco. On the crank-pin is a bushing(?) with a lot of holes. Is that the bearing-bushing or...
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Mike South
ridleyhill
Oct 7, 2007 3:55 am
Good Afternoon All (and 'Happy Thanksgiving' to all Canadian readers**), Re: the forthcoming 'HaiDar' China Rail HO scale 'DF3' Co-Co diesel models.... ...
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kolomnaep200
Nov 12, 2007 8:43 pm
For a short time, i read at www.railfanclub.spb.ru, this dieselengine should go to the museum in Warshau. Is this true? Thomas...
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Daniil Monakhov
dan_monakhov
Nov 13, 2007 10:11 am
... This engine is now in St.Petersburg Railway Museum at ex-Warsaw railway station, which is nicknamed by railwaymen and railfans simply 'Warshava'. ;-) Dan ...
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Thomas Stein
kolomnaep200
Nov 14, 2007 2:11 pm
Thanks, Thats great! So I think, next year was traveltime to St. Petersburg railwaymuseum!!! Thomas ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
