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WL85 at freight yard east of Krasnojarsk. 2005-07-30 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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WL85-215 with westbound freight train at Tajshet. 2005-07-30 Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at

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WL85-072 at Mariinsk. 2005-10-09 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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WL85-149 with a freight train at Mariinsk. 2005-10-09 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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RZD Class VL85 The class VL85 electrics weigh 288 metric tonnes and boast 10000kW. They were built by the Novocherkassk Works in Moscow from 1983 [Peter Christener: The Novocherkassk Works are not in Moscow, they are in Novocherkassk near Rostov-on-Don area, which lays near the black sea coast] Photo taken at Iljanskaya, Siberia by Geir S. Østrem (e-mail: soestrem@online.no)