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...
John Lassahn
JohnLassahn@...
Aug 3, 2007 6:21 pm
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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...
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...
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...
John Lassahn
JohnLassahn@...
Sep 1, 2007 3:09 am
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... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Good Afternoon All (and 'Happy Thanksgiving' to all Canadian readers**), Re: the forthcoming 'HaiDar' China Rail HO scale 'DF3' Co-Co diesel models.... ...
... This engine is now in St.Petersburg Railway Museum at ex-Warsaw railway station, which is nicknamed by railwaymen and railfans simply 'Warshava'. ;-) Dan ...
Thanks, Thats great! So I think, next year was traveltime to St. Petersburg railwaymuseum!!! Thomas ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I enclose the list below for comments and additions. Peharps some member have time to crawl it through. Jukka Nurminen Helsinki Finland 55.5 MPS 1951 ->...
I regret that some information was missing from the earlier version. I have added some additional information to this version. But may I point out that the...
I was asked a question about Russian or Ukranian coal being exported to UK for power stations. Does anyone know the coal source? What is the supply line?...
Can anyone here give more information of this constuction which seems to have been abandoded sometime before World War Two. Was it idented to be broad or...
According to the latest published 1:200.000 map of Brjansk Oblast ( Province ) there were at least the following 1520 mm gauge lines which were not owned by...
A photograph taken in 2006 summer shows that there is a dump of steam locos at Roslavl II - mostly L 2-10-0s including one with a vanderbilt tender (L-0015?)...
... Both lines are parts of the former vast Maltsov railroad: http://narrow.parovoz.com/RU32-maltsovo.php The railroad was built to 914 mm, later partially...
Thanks Dmitri for your reply. There is something in this narrow gauge network of which I would like to have more information. According to L.Moskalev the...
When taking a closer look to historical schematic map published as appendix in 5feet article of Maltsev Railway. There is something which do not fit with 1914...
Jukka, Dmitry Fokin and me undertook an extensive study of the Maltsov (mind the "o"!) railway, based on the original timetables published in late 1890s- and...
Dmitri What I am trying to find out is why 1914, 1916, 1942 ( German ) maps show many different station names and different distances. For example Moscow -...
According to Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat 09.12.2007 the rebuilding the Salla - Alakurtti seems to be possible during next eight years. This time the...
... Really, there are on the modern map a couble of sections of embankment from Roslavl to Unecha. I found any mention about it in memoirs of Anatoly Kazakov,...
Does anyone know of published data showing any line segment handling over 100,000,000 gross tonnes per year in the Soviet era. Needed for a book footnote. ...
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