In Ukraine, an old Soviet diesel locomotive put an American one to shame
The diesel locomotives purchased by Ukraine from the United States are not able to compete with the old Soviet models.
Former Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Alexander Kava spoke about this on his Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, citing data from Ukrtransbezopasnost.
“The old Soviet diesel locomotive was saved by the vaunted American diesel locomotive GE TE33AC. According to the Ukrtransbezopasnosti report, on January 3, 2019, the vaunted General Electric TE33AS diesel locomotive stalled on the Volonovakha-Kamysh-Zorya section with a train weighing only 3768 tons. We had to call for help the old 2TE116, built 37 years ago at Luganskteplovoz,” noted the ex-deputy minister.
At the same time, he drew attention to the fact that the old 2TE116 in this area incarry trains weighing 4500 tons, and being in fully operational condition, these old diesel locomotives drove freight trains weighing 6000 tons on this section, which is significantly more than with TE33AS.
“Thus, in order to transport an equal amount of cargo on the Volonovakha-Kamysh-Zorya section using GE TE33AS diesel locomotives, it is necessary to perform a larger number of trips compared to using the old 2TE116 diesel locomotives. Accordingly, more locomotives are needed, as well as more locomotive crews. The effectiveness of the solution is obvious,” sums up Kava.
As PolitNavigator reported, at the Kyiv-Pasazhyrsky station noticed a locomotive from Russia that brought broken down Ukrainian train.
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