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Funny that you used photos of the Roco models of the LKAB IORE locomotives and hopper cars. These models are difficult to find these days. And modelling an entire train is probably never going to happen. 🙂
I think the reason why there hasn't been many updates about the bombardier project is because of the fact that the different governments over the years have sabotaged trafikverkets budget or should I say more or less has prioritized car infrastructure or given more money to the military and not the money needed for repairing the railway. Which is why swedish railways are in bad condition.
How do trains operate in harsh arctic conditions? I still don't know since you didn't say anything about it. Should have been titled 'History and factoids about Sweden's rail infrastructure'.
$170 USD one way from Vancouver to Portland seems okay, though not super competitive with flying. Governments should subsidize it to make it more competitive. I would also consider just placing the HSR station in surrey rather than Vancouver, since Surrey has good connectivity to the rest of Vancouver metro via the skytrain network.
Banan= banana 🍌 Banan= the line - Banan in Swedish are both written the same way, but pronounced diffrently. You're talking about the ore banana, the iron fruit.
I don’t see the benefit of this project. There are super fast that travel within a half hour to Spain and Morocco. Every hour there are a couple of ferries that go both ways. It’s already easy and convenient. This is nothing more than a prestige project.
There are few companies involve in this projects Including (China Railway Construction Corp) CRCC, SIEMENS, ABENGOA, adif, renfe, Consultrans, OHL, Alshoula, Talgo, Copasa, IMATHIA Construccion, Indra, ineco, Cobra GRUPO, AIRosan Company.
Canadian railways still use a lot of wooden ties. After a derailment with concrete ties they usually have to be replaced. Depending on the severity, wooden ties can be delayed in replacement. Wooden ties don't last as long otherwise, but maintenance is not as big a task these days. Interesting to see how other countries do it. I liked the economics on twinning.
Glasgow and Edinburgh have such good connectivity numbers due to both wmcl and ecml and the four electrified lines between each other, also Glasgow has the largest city wide rail network after London
The SA3 coupler was not designed by the Soviets; rather, the original design was created by one John Willison, a locksmith from Derby, England in 1912. The design was sold to Knorr Bremse, who patented it in 1914 in Europe and in 1916 in the USA. The Soviets decided to adopt it in the early 1930's when they lost patience waiting for the UIC to decide on a replacement automatic coupler for European railways. They unilaterally chose the Willison coupler, then reworked and adapted it to URSS conditions, creating the SA3.
Question: what are the requirements to be considered a heavy line? Also, as a novice, I have a hard time deciding if that 25T axis weight is kind of a lot or not. Could you elaborate on that?
Those wagons look simular to one of the styles used here in the US for Iron ore transport. These cars are 24ft long, and operated under numerous railroads, most notably the DM&IR, BN, CNW, and CN, and are commonly called "Minnesota Ore Cars" (don't know why). Many cars are preserved, or in operation today, with new batches being made each year. The other style is a short, gondola (20-30ft), and said style has been gone for a while. Modern examples are the Rapid Discharge Hoppers, which are 43ft long and used for a variety of other ore/rock transports(except for the CN example, CN still utilizes the 24ft Minnasota Ore Car)
"Minnesota" to distinguish them from the "Michigan" cars which were narrower and slightly lower. Or also from the "Bessemer" cars used by B&LE which were like the Minnesota cars but were fitted with ordinary draft gear (and thus were a couple of feet longer because they did not need to be squeezed onto an ore dock), contrary to the MI and MN cars which special draft gear.
@@BattleshipOrion the Atlas N scale ore car is a "Bessemer" car, as it has the frame extension needed to house ordinary draft gear. You could fake a Minnesota car out of it by cutting the extensions and then finding a way of shortening the couplers. Unfortunately, nobody else makes either a MI or MN car. You could try your hand at designing one for 3D printing.
Can you make a similar video about Romania? Although it is not a country with anything special, I'd like to know what has been done, especially in the last ten years. I'm also curious what's about to come in the nearby future. Thanks!
Its worth saying that when the track was built sweden and norway was in a union where infrastructure between the two countries as well as defense was fully integrated.
The ER200s weren't built in the Estonian SSR, but rather the Latvian SSR! They were built by Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca in Riga. They were not just the first Soviet EMUs designed for speeds up to 200km/h, but also the first high-speed Direct Current intercity EMU in general to have a rheostatic brake. While the ER200s were built just for the route between Moscow and St. Petersburg, many RVR trains built during the Soviet period are still in active service across the former USSR like ER2s in Armenia and Azerbaijan and the ER9s in Kazakhstan, Lithuania and Belarus, and even in past non-USSR communist states like the Class 412s in Serbia, North Macedonia and Montenegro (which were of course once part of Yugoslavia). While the Talgo Strizh trains first ran between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, they were also used for the long Berlin-Moscow route which they entered service for in December 2016 and ran until March 2020. Westbound used to be over 24 hours and eastbound was over 25 hours, but this changed when the Strizh shortened the journey in both directions to 20 hours, so using the Strizh trains for the route shortened the time it took by a bit. They've been used on the St Petersburg-Samara route as well
These high-speed train on a video (0:07) is Siemens Velaro build specialy for Russia - Velaro RUS or Sapsan (250 km/h) . After feb 2022 Siemens leave Russia. rains didn't leave Russia. Maintenance and repairs are carried out in the same way as before - Russian specialists, Russian-made spare parts and German equipment. There was a court decision according to which all special equipment will remain. No worries. It's was fun to see this combination of different videos and voiceover. Now 2 month ago it was announced the construction of a high-speed railway with a minimum train speed of 300 km/h up to 400 km/h.
Love the Iron Ore Line and Ofoten Line. Both the ironore trains running for LKAB and Kaunis Iron are impressive and the landscape is fascinating. And impressive that they've electrified the entire line more than a century ago already
China has exploited foreign technology for civilian & military use from both Europe & Russia. The method is to request for open bids for very large number of units in the beginning “350 railway rolling stock, 200 fighter jets” etc. But once the initial couple of dozen units & critical technology is transferred, the “contracts” are either renegotiated or outright cancelled. China would then soon after introduce “their own” version of the same products without even bothering to change even the external appearances. Germany also “collaborated” for some time with China on the Maglev technology which currently runs in Shanghai. Russian Sukhoi fighter jets & Chinese counterparts looks almost identical. But it is a clever strategy to jump start from a poor developing country to a country almost at par with the top technologically advanced countries in the world.
It would be great if JR could bring back the E4 series, updating it and making it much faster. Double decker trains are so much more efficient in terms of moving more people at one time.
