016 - Container Wagon No. 1 – logistical
Contract: China Shipping Have you never been tempted by the thought? You’re waiting for your connection as a goods train approaches, slowing almost to a halt as it rumbles into the station. The container wagons roll past you. Some of the flat-beds are unoccupied, their platforms tantalisingly close. Aat dii eenhaafaal joppr.[1] In the USA it’s known as ‘rail-hopping’. An entire itinerant lifestyle grew up around it in the depression era, riding for free across the great open
015 - Electric Locomotives No. 18 & 19
Electric Locomotive No. 18 – “Mammoth” Built: 1989 Class/serial no.: Mammutt/MV206753E Length: 22m Weight: 110 tonnes Power: 1650kW Max speed: 150 kph First of a new class after which she was named, No. 18 Locomotive was Rail Noorskii’s most powerful locomotive yet, setting new standards for load-hauling capacity. A legend among locomotives, “Mammutt” has even become the subject of a modern saga, currently under construction, narrating the events of her record-breaking journ
