Archive for 'Rolling Stock' Category
Skid driving with SL95
A good video on YouTube showing difficulties that tram drivers face when driving on slippery rails (click on the image to open the video page). Original title: “Glattkjøring med SL95″. An educational film from Oslo Tramways Inc. about how to drive an SL95 class tramcar on slippery rails. English subtitles are available.
Firefighting trains for Russian wildfires
I’ve found this nice piece of graphic from Russian press agency RIA Novosti about firefighting trains helping to extinguish fires on railway lines. [graphic from RIA Novosti, news seen on Tecnologias y Trenes blog]
Italo’s assembly saga continues
As most of you already know, this blog is following the video published by NTV on the construction of its AGV named Italo. I think it’s a good way to show the phases (lasting months, not minutes as in the video) leading the train to its final aim: carrying us! 2 videos this time. Part [...]
50 V300 Zefiro for Trenitalia confirmed
Following the disclosure of both technical and economic evaluations last Monday, Trenitalia announced today the winner of the competition for the supply of 50 new Very High Speed train sets for the Italian HSL. Italian AnsaldoBreda and Canadian Bombardier will design and build the new V300 Zefiro, first application in Europe of the VHST train [...]
CAF joins the very high speed club
So far, this is the best article I found about new very high speed train from Spanish company CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles) called Oaris (don’t know what it means, actually). Appeared on Via Libre (June 2010) and also published on CAF website is now available for R2.0 readers on the well-known repository. The [...]
Covering Italo’s nose
Third episode visiting the production line of Italo (NTV’s AGV). It’s time to cover the nose in Alstom La Rochelle plant…
More on ETR 1000 from Trenitalia
Not really a big update, just an info video showing the animation of already posted ETR 1000 concept of Trenitalia. A promotional video illustrating Italian high speed trains (now called frecce – “arrows”) from the dawn of their introduction. I’ve also found this image (perhaps another concept) of possible ETR 1000.
Italo’s in the making
NTV (Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori) plans to start commercial service on Italian High Speed Line by September 2011. In the meanwhile, lets future users to see the making of its Italo train set. Italo is the name given by the participants to NTV’s survey aiming to name in a friendly way Ferrari red painted AGV built [...]
Trenitalia High Speed Train concept: ETR1000
Following the presentation of the great challenge for 50 brand new Very High Speed Trains for the Italian network, today Trenitalia unveiled a concept of its 360 km/h rated ETR1000 (it will be called so). It was an internal concept, probably different from what really proposed by the consortium Ansaldo Breda/Bombardier and Alstom, the two [...]
Especial Alta Velocidad [es]
Many thanks to Ingeniería en la Red, the Spanish blog that published this dossier appeared on El Mundo last 18th of April. All about Spanish High Speed (in Spanish), of course re-published on Railway 2.0 Scribd repository. El Mundo Mercados 18 Abr 2010 Especial Alta Velocidad