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International Railroad Discussion > EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in RussiaDate: 04/30/21 12:54 EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: zorz According to Railway Gazette: "Yakutia Railway has taken delivery of a Progress Rail EMD 2TE3250 twin-section diesel locomotive for testing in the region’s extreme environment."
The units are basically two SD70ACe-LC's with smaller fuel tanks that are semi-permanently coupled. They seem to have some measure of weatherproofing, but are not a radical departure in design from what I can see. The russian climate is definitely quite extreme, but also not that crazier than interior Alaska or Labrador in the dead of winter, so I'm wondering if PR's logic is if they could weatherproof for QNS&L then Russia should be doable with a largely off-the-shelf design.    Date: 04/30/21 13:54 Re: EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: usmc1401 No Air Conditioner on the roof.
Date: 04/30/21 16:21 Re: EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: tomstp We don't want those ruskies getting comfortable. Let em sweat their one day of summer.
Date: 04/30/21 16:49 Re: EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: zorz ACe A/C is under the cab last I checked
Posted from iPhone Date: 04/30/21 18:08 Re: EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: Ray_Murphy This railway, which currently stretches 1200 km from Bamovskaya (at its south end, where it meets the Trans-Siberian Railway) to Nizhny Bestyakh (at its north end, across the Lena River from Yakutsk), is in its long-range plans going to reach the Bering Strait, so maybe EMD/Progress Rail is really looking to the future.
Ray Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/30/21 18:09 by Ray_Murphy. Date: 05/01/21 07:15 Re: EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: Bob3985 Is this railway standard guage or the Russian broad guage (5 foot)?
Bob Krieger Cheyenne, WY Date: 05/01/21 08:14 Re: EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: Ray_Murphy Bob3985 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Is this railway standard guage or the Russian > broad guage (5 foot)? Russian gauge (1520 mm) Ray Date: 05/01/21 08:21 Re: EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: tomstp And, that is 5 feet.
Date: 05/01/21 08:56 Re: EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: Ray_Murphy tomstp Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > And, that is 5 feet. No. 5 feet is 1524 mm. Ray Date: 05/01/21 10:08 Re: EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: krm152 In 1843 the Russian Empire adopted a track gauge of 1524mm or 5ft.
In 1960 the then Soviet Union re-defined the gauge as 1520mm or 4ft. 11 & 27/32in. This standard for conversion is: 1 Millimeter = 0.03937007874 Inches. ALLEN Date: 05/02/21 05:51 Re: EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: dcfbalcoS1 Looks like 5ft will work then. Otherwise we are nitpicking on what? An 1/8 of an inch. The track will be out of gauge that much. Run it!
Posted from Android Date: 05/02/21 11:59 Re: EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: SD45X So that's what a Milwaukee ACe would have looked like;)
Date: 05/04/21 12:49 Re: EMD/Progress Rail Locomotives on test in Russia Author: 86235 dcfbalcoS1 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Looks like 5ft will work then. Otherwise we are > nitpicking on what? An 1/8 of an inch. The track > will be out of gauge that much. Run it! > > Posted from Android IIRC Spain and Portugal's nominal 5'6" gauge is different by a couple of mm, doesn't seem to cause an issue. |