Some years ago I acquired some works photos of Kolomna-built steam locomotives. They were of exceptionally high quality. Does anyone know if, from where, and...
I have a black/white drawing of the right side, top, and front of a Russian 2-6-0 locomotive with road number in cyrillic "HB 9052" which presumeably...
... To be precise, it should be NV (though even more precisely, both the v and V should be suffixes). Class NV had 1900mm driving wheels, and class Nv had...
I wonder if any Russian friends could give me a brief translation of usolmash.ru, regarding what appears to be their plans to produce rail wagons.Even with...
Gentlemen Does anyone know have there sometime published a detailed research of US 5ft railways, their locomotives, and dates when they were regauged to ...
Jukka: The short answer is no. Five feet was standard gauge on many of the carriers south of the Mason Dixon line for many antebellum years. Only of trivial...
Thaks Peter for your very informative answer. Thus it seems the only way to solve how many locomotives actually run on Southern 5ft gauge lines is to compile...
Gentlemen I forgot to mention that regarding the Belgian built tank locomotives the question is of 213 Ct-n2 locomotives, built for Panama Canal Construction....
As a sidebar to the interesting discussion of 5' gauge US railways by Jukka and Peter, these 5' (and other disparate gauge) railways tended to disappear like...
George Rogers Taylor, a noted U.S. economic historian produced a small volume entitled THE AMERICAN RAILROAD NETWORK: 1861-1890, Harvard 1956 (currently in...
China, Kazakhstan: Train sets out for virgin trip The first international passenger train left Astana, capital of Kazakhstan Tuesday afternoon for Urumqi,...
Gentlemen When doing some preliminary work to compile the locomotives which have been built to 5ft gauge railways in USA I noticed again, which I had typically...
Hi Roy, Very warm thanks for the invaluable links. Perhaps you can tell me about the small tan book, title or author if you know it. I´ve been sending mails...
Hei Dimitri If I remember correct, more than 75 pages. I copied from it (long time ago) by pen to paper, in my opinion, by then, the most interesting ones like...
According to the Russian business news site Marchmontcapital.com a railway is to be built in the Tuva Republic between Kyzyl and "Kurageno".Does anyone know...
Gentlemen Does anyone remember an old color film produced by Walt Disney in 1950s? or so, of an Union Army Captain? who acted as a spy somewhere in the South...
... I suppose the film was "The Great Locomotive Chase". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049279/ One of the locomotives in the film was Virginia & Truckee 22...
The other two locomotives performing in the film were Baltimore & Ohio's replica of LAFAYETTE as YONAH (quite incorrectly, as the original YONAH was a 4-4-0...
Gentlemen Thanks for the information. One thing is still unclear for me. If Baltimore & Ohio had only about 75 locos in 1861 when the war broke out and the...
Gentlemen I forgot 52 km between Irba and Platform Switch km 557. Thus the rail distance from Tasheba to Sajanskaja is 408 km. Sorry of the writing errors in...
A bit off-topic, but anyone interested in Tuva should see the award-winning film "Genghis Blues". This is a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction documentary about an...
Gentlemen A time journey back to summer 1913. Warsaw before the Great War No new narrow gauge lines in Poland were built in 1911. The Tablonna - Vaver line...
Gentlemen I repeat here some totally forgotten matters in general railway history, even little known in Russia, of the early electricication plans of Russian...
Hei Oleg Could you make a short Sunday excursion out of Brjansk taking at first A141 to the junction of M3 ( E101 ) and drive south M3 and then turn right to...
Gentlemen On 10.06.2008 at 18.30 Finland´s TV 1 showed an Estonian document: Sinimäed: Sodan arvet ( 60 min ). Transliterally Blue Hills: Scars of war. It...
Please can you find for me picture of train Mail car from 1934 , color bright green, No. OK 621 about 16 meter long. was in Leningrad. Thank you . Dobush...
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