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...
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...
The last posting has goaded my into action.. To post a pic that is. I have put it in the Photo section with my name, John Brouwer. It shows an ND2 in a small...
Hello I've been told West German Henschel NY6-0010 worked L803 from Beijing Nan for the stations last day before closure! Pity I was not there! Thanks Mark...
Hello, before taking a short look on "google-earth". Now they offer a lot of new and clear satelittle pictures many places in China. I realised a localine wich...
an online-article in german language could be found on http://www.sueddeutsche.de/reise/artikel/101/79022/ There are also some pics, e.g. with an DF4A oder B,...
The railway officials announced the timetable into the occupied Tibet: 1)Beijing--Lahsa T27 ,Dep Beijing xi 21：30，The 3rd-day 20：58 arrive Lahsa，All...
Hello, I have seen the Chinese english news talk about some new stamps issued for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. They also talk about some other commemorative...
A photo report on CJBB ( http://www.railwayfan.net/dispbbs.asp? boardID=2&ID=33335&page=6 ) shows, that the new line is open now, the old tracks abandoned....
Hasea board shows quite recent pictures of the Tianzhu Pass line. It seems whether Duncan`s information some months ago was correct: northbound trains still...
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