Second train derailment in Leningrad region



by macktruck6666

25 comments
  1. oh dear, what a terrible coincidence!

    oh well, shit happens.

  2. How many train locomotives / wagons do the Russians have?

    Where I live, if you want to procure new trains for public service, it’s years of debates, RFIs, public offerings, etc.

    And then, when a supplier is finally selected, it’s years to build the actual hardware.

    I wager trains will start becoming rare in Russia at some point also.

  3. I hope all the train conductors quit their jobs after realizing it’s as dangerous as being in a meat assault.

  4. What kind of bird is that?! It has a very distinctive sound; lovely.

  5. I wonder how many kilometres of rail track they have inside Russia and how they might protect against trains flipping over now and then. This is genius.

  6. Russia’s war machine depends heavily on their rail system. The original Soviet logic was they would flood their enemy with tanks, troops artillery and move it all by rail. Destroy Russia’s rail network and you throw a major spanner into the Russian economy.

  7. Seriously, from a technical perspective – is that repairable?

  8. Lack of foreign parts for repairs and maintenance, and increased use beyond what it wad intended for = this is the result.

  9. I suspect it’s just that unseasonal warm weather causing the tracks to deform?/s

  10. Things are starting to get really funny in Russia.
    Putin needs this, he’s already looking forward to it.

  11. Seeing as these trains seem to be electric trains, could drones drape some sort of conductive wires across the wires above to short out the power, or are most trains still diesel?

  12. Looks like just the engine and no cars, based on the 300m – 400m of damaged track/poles and skid marks, the engineer had it wide open and drifted it like a fuckin’ Mario cart around the bend

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