Hello, First of all thanks for letting me become part of this exiting group! I wanted to share with you that news that yesterday Dec. 4th China exported out of...
There is a posting on Changjiang of a visit to Jiagedaqi depot and a trip on the train to Mohe. It is notable that the northern series of DF7Ds comes in both...
Hi, Thank you for letting me join the group. Does anybody know of any passenger car (& diesel) scale drawings? I wish to make some......wait for it.......Z...
Hi, I am attempting to model Chinese railways in Z scale. Twenty coach trains should be possible in a small space :-)) Does anybody have any helpful thoughts...
Hi Doug, Welcome to the group. You have certainly set yourself a challenge! In the absence of detailed drawings, you might find it helpful to access the...
... This is a third of one of the of the 78 new triple section locos for the Tibet line. The 6000 hp freight locos will follow at a later date. I believe the...
In the "trainorders.com" website they are "slagging off" the new locomotives as ugly. Have they seen their (US) locos recently ( and the ones they sent us [UK...
There are two types of of open wagon that I have seen in China: the C62A and the C16A. Does anyone know what the physical difference is between the C62A and ...
Here are the tech details of the new GE (model C38AChe) for the Tibet line. So, it's V16 FDL engine of 3,800 hp. This is the info for one third of a loco, each...
Very interesting Philip but the link does not work! John Brouwer ... From: Diesel_in_China@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Diesel_in_China@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of...
I referred to the C16A in my trip report of Feb 2004 http://www.railwaysofchina.com/pingdingshan.htm (which just happens to be the first entry if you type...
Robin, thanks for the link which I have now checked and found thast it provides the answer I was looking for. Do you have any idea where the 62 and 16 came...
Don't know is the answer, but "60" almost certainly comes from the 60t standard load capacity, and 62 is presumably just a progressive number. The C62A appears...
In 1954, Skagit Iron & Steel supplied 30 diesels (alcohol fueled) to the Taiwan Sugar Corporation. Does anyone have any photos or information concerning these...
... to ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A lot of Scania busses run on metanol and etanol fuel with fuel injection pumps as on a diesel....
Brian, The very sparse information that we have found on the locos does not give us exactly what engine was actually delivered with the locos. Versions of the...
... From what you describe these are fuel-injection gas engines *not* diesels. Gas engines have spark plugs - diesels don't; they use compression ignition....
Brian, Harkening back to my military days of 30 years ago, we had a class of trucks (2 1/2 ton... "deuce and a halfs") that were called "Multifuels". We...
... Gas/Kerosene engines were very common at one time in the UK, especially in farm tractors. In these engines the kerosene was known as TVO = Tractor...
nearly all of our trucks, bedfords mainly were at one time multifuel so they could operate in any theatre of operations now they are mainly diesel only the...
Following this link, you can see the current situation of Basuo station and depot: http://www.hasea.com/cgi-bin/lb5000/topic.cgi? forum=36&topic=3033&show=0 ...
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