‼️ “RZD” to Rust: In December, 9 Units of Rolling Stock Destroyed in Russia
🔥 In December 2024, on the territory of the aggressor state Russia, 9 units of railway rolling stock were destroyed by fire. These were used by the enemy for transporting weapons and ammunition.
In the Moscow region: 1 TE116 diesel locomotive and 2 EP2D electric trains.
In the Ryazan region: 2 VL-80 electric locomotives.
In the Tyumen region: 1 SM-2 locomotive and 1 AGS-1Sh railcar.
In the Rostov region: 1 VL-80 electric locomotive.
In the Sverdlovsk region: 1 UTM-2M diesel locomotive.
⚔️ The fight against the logistics of the Russian occupying army continues!
🇺🇦 Glory to Ukraine!
I didn’t know trains could fall out of windows
That’s what happens when you smoke in your locomotives.
Lack of maintenance dramatically increase the chances of bad luck.
Also being a dick will increase the odds I am told.
How many of them cam they produce? My impression is not many and so they will run out if this keeps up but I don’t know.
Russia Railways took delivery of 557 locomotives in 2023. Sounds like a lot, but they have something like 20,000 locomotives total and a lot of them are rather old. Also the manufacturers have a lot of workers with skills easily used for weapons production. So I doubt it will be as many this year.
Still that means 10 locomotives destroyed isn’t a usefully large number. They need to destroy a hundreds before Russia has to make hard choices and several thousand before it will significantly affect the war. Thanks for finding that. (will I should ask for a source)
For the 557 locomotives: https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/98514/
For 20,000 total: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/27740
And it actually does matter, as Russia has already problems to service the locomotives they already have: https://www.railfreight.com/specials/2024/11/04/locomotive-shortage-causes-at-least-93-of-russian-loading-decline/
Lens effect strikes again.
