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2788
The sets 48010 (two RZD WLABmee, small pictograms) and 48011 (two RZD WLABmee, no pictograms) as well as a model of the red/pink prototype car with DR number...
tobias b köhler
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Oct 2, 2008
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2789
The regional government of Krasnoyarsk county/oblast has announced tenders for the Karabula -Yarki railway, does anyone know if Yarki is Yarkino north of the...
kanda74
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Oct 3, 2008
3:10 pm
2790
... No, south (left) bank of the Angara. BTW, it's really Yarki, not Yarkino. Originally they planned to build this line some 20-30 years ago - it is shown on...
Patrick Bonacker
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Oct 5, 2008
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2791
Dears Egil and Theis Sorry to have been quiet for two weeks and so. I was in holyday in Greece, visiting couple of islands, and after sneezing a town museum in...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Oct 12, 2008
6:21 pm
2792
Dear Eigil This line seems to have interesting history. The Grodna - Suvalki section 98 versts seems to have been the first to be completed then Orany -...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Oct 13, 2008
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2793
Gentlemen Now part of history but the train loads on passenger and express trains in Russia seems to follow the American old days railroading in its zenith...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Oct 13, 2008
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2794
Gentlemen I remember here have been asked of M62 locomotives. Before being totally forgotten here are few information of these "everyday work horses" on some...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Oct 13, 2008
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2795
Gentlemen Little bit of Russian Railway History. This in 1914 of this line. The section Bologoje - Velikije Luki 291 versts was a single line. But the section...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Oct 14, 2008
2:18 pm
2796
Hello everybody,* *Can anyone provide me a timetable of the fomer direct train connection Warszawa - L'viv via Lublin - Hrebenne - Rava Rus'ka - Lvov? Does...
Theijs van Welij
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Oct 16, 2008
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2797
The matter of russian locomotives' works numbers has appeared several times on this group. To my best knowledge, nobody has mentioned the presence of works...
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Oct 19, 2008
6:43 pm
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Jukka's comments about how Finland cannot trade south and west via the 5 foot rail network due to Russian control are most interesting. Now, if Russia would...
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Oct 21, 2008
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I read a few years ago that the giant Kamaz truck plant in Tataria was to make railwagons, I wonder if any of our Russian colleagues have any information on...
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Oct 30, 2008
3:55 pm
2800
Gentlemen There seems to have been also one railway line in Brazil which was originally built to 1524 mm, later regauged to 1600 mm. I traced from Baldwin list...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Oct 30, 2008
7:27 pm
2801
Jukka, A number of GE electric locomotives a.k.a. "Little Joes" were built to 1520mm for the USSR and sent to Brazil because of the trade complications caused...
Dmitry Zinoviev
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Oct 30, 2008
7:37 pm
2802
I think these are errors in the list. They should be 1600 mm gauge as built. Doug Gentlemen There seems to have been also one railway line in Brazil which was...
Doug Cummings
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Oct 30, 2008
8:00 pm
2803
Dmitri It is difficult to say yes or no. Baldwin gave works numbers to locomotives in that order they entered out from painting house, thus the huge locomotive...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Oct 30, 2008
9:23 pm
2804
Doug How can you be so sure that they are 1600 mm gauge locomotives? That Baldwin list what I bought from USA a long time ago show clearly also gauge as: ...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Oct 30, 2008
10:11 pm
2805
Gentlemen Can anyone tell what was the principle of 142 Rogers built locomotives which so designed that they could easily be changed to run either on 1524 and...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Oct 30, 2008
10:25 pm
2806
Jukka, I agree with Doug. Mistake in the lists. EF Dom Pedro Segundo was a major and relatively well documented railway, gauge1.600m, later also 1.000m, but...
Eljas Pölhö
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Oct 30, 2008
11:20 pm
2807
With all due respect, you are always looking for something sinister everywhere you look. Baldwin built locomotives for anyone. They had sales agents and...
Doug Cummings
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Oct 31, 2008
2:11 am
2808
Again, with all due respect your list has errors in it. I took the time to check what you list here, several are out and out wrong, these locomotives existed...
Doug Cummings
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Oct 31, 2008
4:21 am
2809
Folks I would also like to add that in the course of researching the railways of Brazil for a forthcoming book, I have never come across the 1524mm gauge...
Neil Robinson
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Oct 31, 2008
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2810
Gentlemen Thanks for participating. Why always MY LIST IS WRONG, not the other lists. I have today crawled through my papers, but did not find combined Page, ...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Oct 31, 2008
3:43 pm
2811
... The line you are referring to, the EF Campos de Jordão, was always metre gauge, and was opened in 1914. It only ever had one steam locomotive, O&K 6589, a...
Martin Murray
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Oct 31, 2008
4:11 pm
2812
Martin Thanks for clearing for me this line. As I told I just looked the map, nothing else. This line is then out of question. Jukka [Non-text portions of this...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Oct 31, 2008
4:41 pm
2813
You have to understand the background of the R&LHS and people like Charles Fisher to understand how these lists were first prepared. Charles Fisher tried to...
Doug Cummings
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Oct 31, 2008
5:03 pm
2814
Yes, specials do operate over the entire line. I have been over it. It is electrified the entire distance. Doug...
Doug Cummings
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Oct 31, 2008
6:40 pm
2815
Gentlemen Few silly questions, but here they comes. Is the Jekaterinburg - Ufalej - Kyshtim - Tsheljabin(sk) 252 km line double track line and is it now...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Nov 1, 2008
9:24 am
2816
Hej Bengt Thanks for the updating news of Tornio - Kolari line. The Swedish ore traffic over this line is just what is needed to keep the line open and...
Jukka ja Liisa Nurminen
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Nov 1, 2008
10:22 am
2817
... It's not YOUR list which is wrong, Jukka, it's the Baldwin list that you have. You weren't responsible for the list, so you shouldn't feel personally...
Martin Murray
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Nov 1, 2008
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