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Date: 12/18/12 06:44
Soyuz
Author: Rivannaco

NASA distributes a "photo of the day" and the latest one was a nice mixture of "rail & space" (admittedly not from our side of the hemisphere) and though some would enjoy. Hopefully you can open via the following thread:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2411.html

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Date: 12/18/12 06:53
Re: Soyuz
Author: miralomarail

It looks like a Alco RSD-1 ,

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Date: 12/18/12 06:55
Re: Soyuz
Author: icancmp193

I believe the Ruskies liked the Alco design so well that they "reverse engineered" a few of their own and obviously, at least one endures to this day!

Tom Y

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Date: 12/18/12 07:40
Re: Soyuz
Author: africansteam

Neat picture Rivannaco. Thanks for your post. Loco is a TEM-3, a much later evolution of the TE-1/TEM-1 which was derived from the Alco RSD-1.

See: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Train_bringing_the_rocket_to_the_launching_area.jpg

And: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TE1-20-105-1.jpg

And: http://alcoworld.railfan.net/plagiate.htm

Cheers,
Jack



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/18/12 10:41 by africansteam.

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Date: 12/18/12 15:41
Re: Soyuz
Author: Evan_Werkema

Didn't the Russians also duplicate an FM opposed piston engine for locomotives? I've heard that's what's at the core of the notoriously smoky TE10's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEETEOcQW90

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