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Freight train seen from train no. 9 "Bajkal" (Irkutsk - Moskva) somewhere between Tjumen and Sverdlovsk. 2005-10-10 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at 34195 km by train from Graz to Shanghai and back. From Austria to China via Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Mongolia and back via Kazakhstan, Usbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and Hungary. Start of the travelogue

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Double - chamber refrigerator car 16-3045 made by BMZ (the joint - stock company "Bryansk Engineering Works", Russia). Two autonomous freight chambers allow to store simultaneously two kinds of products. Temperature inside may be supported from +14 C to -20 C at outside temperature from -50 C to +38 C. Effective volume 2*59 m3. Connected to outside power unit (three-fase; 50Hz; 380 V). May be use as a stationary one. Photo was given by BMZ company as the owner (telex 4125000 BMZ RU) Scan by Oleg V. Izmerov <press@admin.bryansk.ru>

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RZD Russian freight wagons at the dual gauge tracks at Zurawice in Poland. Here end the tracks that come from Medyka/Mostiska-2 border crossing with Ukraine. Picture taken 26 April 2008 (C) Theijs van Welij

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RZD refrigerator wagon 908 26470. Barnaul, 08-08-08. tobias b köhler

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RS-5 is the five-car refrigerator unit for gauge 1435mm and 1520mm, made by BMZ (joint - stock company "Bryansk Engineering Works", Bryansk city, Russia). The unit consist of four freight cars and one diesel-electric power car. Capacity of the every freight car is 47 tons, max. speed 120km/h. The equipment supports the temperature in the freight compartment from +14 to -20 C at ambient temperature from -50 to+38 C. Service life till overhaul is 16 years. At photo: RS-5 in the BMZ yard. Photo was given by the BMZ company as the owner. Scan by Oleg V. Ismerov <press@admin.bryansk.ru>