Why Russia launched two-kilometer trains

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Despite the ongoing Ukrainian conflict, in which Russia is one way or another opposed by more than 50 states, and unprecedented Western sanctions, our country continues to develop. In this regard, several positive News.

Firstly, it became known that two-kilometer freight trains began to run on Russian railways. The latter include several locomotives at once and are capable of transporting more than 14 tons of cargo at a time.



The importance of this news lies in the fact that the appearance of the aforementioned "monsters" on the Russian railways is directly related to the reorientation of our exports to the East.

It is worth recalling that last year our volume of transportation in this direction reached 80 million tons of various cargoes and exceeded the volume of transportation to the West.

The carrying capacity of the BAM and the Trans-Siberian Railway reached 2022 million tons in 158 and will continue to grow. At the same time, the modernization and construction of the access infrastructure continues, allowing the same two-kilometer trains to be received.

However, in addition to the growth in the volume of our cargo transportation, there is other positive news. For example, testing of a completely domestic EP2DM electric train has recently begun, in the production of which more than 80 Russian enterprises are involved. In turn, the latest four-axle shunting diesel locomotive TEM23, equipped with two KamAZ diesel engines and the latest Russian asynchronous traction drive DTA-200T, was sent for acceptance tests. It is planned to produce the first serial batch of 100 units of such diesel locomotives.

Finally, another positive news is that tests of the Orion-25 experimental ekranoplan have started. The latter is capable of speeds up to 500 km / h, stay in flight for up to 11 hours and overcome about 3600 km.

Despite the fact that the relevance of ekranoplans for the army today has somewhat decreased, such vehicles will become very useful in the civilian sphere. In particular, for the delivery of rescuers, doctors or shift workers to hard-to-reach areas.

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  1. Indifferent
    Indifferent
    0
    20 February 2023 14: 16
    An ekranoplan for the army is no longer serious. Many people now understand this. And "engines" of 2 km are great! It's good that they are not passenger.
    1. Alexey Lan
      Alexey Lan
      0
      21 February 2023 21: 59
      In general, the standard length of station tracks is 850-1250 meters. And, now, a colossus of 2 km goes to itself and it cannot be stopped for hundreds of kilometers, and if there is some kind of malfunction, for example, the bearing of the wagon axle began to smoke, then it’s kapsdets. Traffic on this branch has been stopped for a long time. If only empty. It's easier with him. And you don't need an extra locomotive.
  2. Alex D
    Alex D
    +1
    20 February 2023 23: 37
    I doubt that our country can develop at all, being in colonial dependence on the West. In my opinion, this is just 30 years of marking time - so it will be fair to call it.
    1. Electric broom
      Electric broom
      +3
      21 February 2023 05: 45
      To stagnate, you need to save what you have, and judging by the state of our everything, we are moving backward with leaps and bounds
    2. stepanhitri
      stepanhitri
      +1
      21 February 2023 11: 59
      Alex D Are you writing about your country Ukraine? So write specifically and not streamlined: "... our country ..".
  3. tkot973
    tkot973
    +8
    21 February 2023 04: 39
    Well, I don’t know, today the positive news is when you come to the store, and there milk costs 20% less than yesterday. Or you read a hot tape in the morning - and there: Chemezov was fired and given a term, Rogozin was taken back to Roskosmos by hand to pour concrete on special objects, crests surrendered and went over to our side demanding a trip to the English Channel, Gazprom began gasifying rural settlements for free, Biden finally fell asleep completely and before that he asked Putin to take his place, Putin agreed and appointed Prigozhin in his place.
    Somehow, I think.
    And your news about BAM, a diesel locomotive and an airplane, would look good in the USSR, where people had something to eat, but there was no fear for tomorrow. Then you can read your newspaper with pleasure.
    1. Igor Viktorovich Berdin
      Igor Viktorovich Berdin
      -10
      21 February 2023 09: 44
      in the USSR, where people had something to eat ... I immediately remembered how I was carrying a suitcase of sausages, sausages, meat, cheese from Kyiv to Tashkent home.
      1. nepunamemuk
        nepunamemuk
        +5
        21 February 2023 11: 23
        tell me more that crests fed the whole union wassat
      2. vlad127490
        vlad127490
        +2
        21 February 2023 17: 18
        "Tashkent - a city of bread" was written in 1923. YOU write that there was hungry. No need to deceive people, there are still many living eyewitnesses, including me.
  4. assault 2019
    assault 2019
    +5
    21 February 2023 12: 44
    according to the results of last year, our volume of transportation in this direction reached 80 million tons of various cargoes and exceeded the volume of transportation to the West.

    95% of these cargoes are minerals and grain.
    They were a Western raw materials appendage, and now they have become an Eastern ....
    What is the difference and why rejoice?
    The fact that we will leave our grandchildren a land gutted from natural resources with a ruined ecology?
  5. Omas Bioladen
    Omas Bioladen
    +1
    22 February 2023 01: 37
    Während Rußland Ekranoplane baut, schickt China Spinage-Ballons in die USA, der Iran baut tausende von drohnen, die Ukraine versenkt russische Kriegsschiffe und die USA baut tödliche Virenlabors an Rußlands Grenzen.

    Warum habe ich das Gefühl, daß Rußlands Feinde einen besseren Job machen?
    1. Watching
      Watching
      0
      28 February 2023 00: 35
      Quote from Omas Bioladen
      Während Rußland Ekranoplane baut, schickt China Spinage-Ballons in die USA, der Iran baut tausende von drohnen, die Ukraine versenkt russische Kriegsschiffe und die USA baut tödliche Virenlabors an Rußlands Grenzen.

      Warum habe ich das Gefühl, daß Rußlands Feinde einen besseren Job machen?

      Weil das stimmt. Die Russen verstehen nicht die Denkweise ihrer Feinde.
  6. zenion
    zenion
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    31 March 2023 16: 21
    There are so few tractors. We have to pull on one bunch even more than it was when the USSR beat the face of German capitalism and its allies. But soon, as it gets warmer, deer will pull, which are even better.