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Cya

[ch9786]

G'day mate,

Thanks for the link...

Big, ancient iron constructions with big iron vehicles but it all works, in its own way - that's Russia for ya.

Some more working primitivity here:




and the most impressive:



full throttle, no halfway positions...

In a way, Russia is a mirror image of Oz, only on the outback, you can freeze to death if you're not careful

Cheers,

T

just imagine if that much smoke came out of trains in Australia the EPA would have a field day.

-Monty

Monty,

There's a new version which complies with all the latest Russian EPA regs:



The only thing I can say is these use two stroke opposed piston engines AND heavy oil - probably the best smoke convertors you could ask for. In case the spec sounds familiar, yes, they're copies of the old US Fairbanks-Morse engines of the 1940s and the 1950s, but obviously more successful than the originals.

The Russians also copied the DD 6-71 and 4-71 and then the Cummins V8 and V6... Again, made more of these things than Cummins

Cheers,

T