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Ukrzaliznytsia has this morning announced the in house construction of 66 new passenger coaches by the end of the year and the refurbishment of 42 others retrieved from storage, 4 with improvements in disability access. 6 passenger coaches converted for medical evacuation. Also 15 suburban trains will be overhauled.
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LMS Branch Line Terminus Plan for Large Layout
DavidB-AU replied to The Nottingham Extension's topic in Layout & Track Design
I would actually put back the kickback siding, if the front of the board was finished as a canal wharf. -
D3 639 has returned to the main line in Victoria.
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The biggest culprit of shrinkflation appears to be breakfast cereals. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-11/cereal-shrinkflation-price-size-cost-of-living-kellogs/103570246
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LMS Branch Line Terminus Plan for Large Layout
DavidB-AU replied to The Nottingham Extension's topic in Layout & Track Design
A suggestion is ditch the engine shed. It's taking up space that could be used for another industry and more likely than not the loco would live at the junction or other nearby major station. In the case of the Newport Pagnell example above, it was mostly worked by Bletchley locos. A branch line terminus probably only needs water at the end of the platform. -
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I like/dislike foreign layouts - discuss
DavidB-AU replied to TEAMYAKIMA's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
There was even one of the ex-LMS coaches in WD service abandoned at Dunkirk that somehow ended up in Russia. -
I honestly don't see the point of superelevation in N. It sort of makes sense for Unitrack if you're running a Shinkansen around 381mm radius, but for Swiss standard gauge in N following prototype superelevation the outer rail would be less than 0.5mm higher.
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The 2900s are also used on infrastructure trains. This one includes the steam loco water tank which is going to Toowoomba for use behind the C17.
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Valves and related products such as Nixie tubes are still being made in Russia. The Russian government (particularly the military) is the largest customer. An unfathomable amount of equipment dating back to the 1950s is still in use and needs spare parts. In the 90s the factories discovered they could also sell valves to hobbyists in the West who, by most reports, consider them to be very high quality. I know somebody who owns a Hammond B3 organ and swears that if you can't get NOS GE or RCA valves, the modern Russian ones are the best replacement. That supply has largely dried up in the last 2 years for obvious reasons. Back on topic, in many cases offshoring manufacturing is a false economy. In my day job a frequent supplier of electronic equipment decided to outsource manufacturing to China about 5 years ago. What used to be delivered in a couple of weeks now needed to be ordered 3 months in advance, but prices remained stable for a while. Then covid happened and global supply chains were disrupted, so delivery times became more like 6 months unless you were prepared to pay extra for air freight. Now we need to order and pay up front just to get into the factory's 2025 production schedule!
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Driving for 12 hours per day, which is still on the dangerous side in WA!
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