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These two Canadians were arrested in 2015, for illegally shipping railroad spares to Iran https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/iran-illegal-exporting-canada-railway-train-equipment-1.3268414 Their company was dissolved in 2019 https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/scr/cc/CorporationsCanada/fdrlCrpDtls.html?co...

This mob are claiming to be cloning 16-645 crankcases http://www.taamlocomotive.com If you have difficulties digging deep into this site http://www.taamlocomotive.com/tla-successfully-manufactured-the-first-diesel-engine-crankcase-in-iran/ http://www.taamlocomotive.com/tln-201/ I would have thought ...

FM/ALCO no longer builds new 251 blocks as I recently learned. You might as well forget meeting "Tier" standards of any level due to that alone. The best hope is rebuilding existing blocks which may allow for "grandfathered" emissions standards. Try DLW Varanasi, a division of I...

Russia from the commencement of rail

Includes all of the Baltic countries that were former Soviet states, as well as the "Stans"

Ukraine is a former Russian State hence 5'

Sakhalin Island in the east is Cape gauge

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Third tranche of six 251 powered YDM-4 delivered in March http://www.financialexpress.com/infrastructure/railways/indian-railways-supplies-18-make-in-india-locomotives-to-myanmar-locos-made-in-varanasis-dlw/1106049/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.railwaygazette.c...

https://www.railjournal.com/index.php/locomotives/five-bids-for-indian-dfc-locomotive-contract.html?channel=528" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; A BHEL-EMD consortium BHEL= Bharat Heavy Electrics Limited As Caterpillar proved with the F125, they will outsource loco design to ...

Alco diesel converted to electric in India http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/traction-rolling-stock/single-view/view/diesel-locomotive-rebuilt-as-an-electric.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Quickie prototype, so a bit rough Still a huge pool of Alcos in India, 6,12, an...

This photo shot 9/24/2017 at Muncie
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Can anyone please ID the export unit to the left of the covered loco?

Prototype or new model?

Took the liberty of enlarging

Hi, Looking at Google Earth they might be off the tracks in the southern area (looks like a parts/junk area). If so, in very bad shape. Did you use the "Ruler" in the task bar to check the length? For those on Trainorders, last drone overflight of NRE Mount Vernon 05 Feb 2017 https://www....

Six new build 6 cylinder 251 powered YDM-4 shipped to Myanmar in June 2017 http://www.dlw.indianrailways.gov.in/view_detail.jsp?lang=0&id=0,294,304&dcd=1323&did=1498288071842032F96AAF96DA587A734E35A39750EB7.web107" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Current DLW catal...

For hardcore Alco fans, India is still the holy grail No Tier4 in India, Alco = smoke For broad gauge locos this is a usefull guide http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-loco2d.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Lots of smoke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwa8jP9fa1Y" onclic...

I was quoting 6-cylinder inline 251 for India/Chile/Australia, not 12 or 16. Last that I heard, the 16 is still in production in India DLW built over 1000 locos with 6 cylinder 251engines, the point that I was trying to make is that this is a common engine outside of North America. There are still t...

Casagrande preping a DL-535/RSD-30 for hire in Bolivia earlier this month

On broad gauge was on B-B, will possibly use C-C for metre gauge in Bolivia

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Indian Railways are in the process of scrapping their YDM-4 and 4A fleet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YDM-4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The the above statement "never was that common of an engine since only a couple of models of low-production switchers and light ...