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FCP503 wrote:Very interesting post! I never connected the DF and DF3 as being opposed piston. It's also nice to learn what "ND" and "DF" stand for. Did this person have any information on the DF4 series? If memory serves these units have a 4 stroke cycle V16 engine, but I don't know if this engine was domestically derived, or if it is a copy of something else...(the Kolomna 4 stroke perhaps?)
I wouldn´t see it that pessimistic...Nasadowsk wrote:I doubt any straight FM copy would have been that way for long
Petz wrote:I wouldn´t see it that pessimistic...Railroads that did a careful service (like Virginian) got good results from their locos but for the most uneducated and not specially trained railway employees the FM´s had been unloved childs and so they would be handled by them. The Russian state railway did proper servicing with trained personal, Kolomna upgrades and further developements but FM surely would have done the same if they had stayed in the locomotive business.
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