... 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 ...
The report from our latest trip to China has just been uploaded to the Tractive Efforts website. Main destinations were the SY worked mine railways at...
Apparently there was an item on Chinese TV news this morning about the opening of the new base tunnel on 30 March. Too late I thought! Then it occurred to me...
Next spring I have the intention to travel in Western China to have a look at all the new railways build and in construction. I like to see a link to acurate...
78 locomotives on order from GE USA (C38ACHe) will be NJ2 class. What are the details of the NJ1 and how many are there? What classification will the 300 GE...
Hello Currently bouncing some emails off the chinese newsgroups and attempting to dechipher the results. Here is a quick update on the status of the older...
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