‼️ “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
Lack of maintenance dramatically increase the chances of bad luck.
Also being a dick will increase the odds I am told.
That’s what happens when you smoke in your locomotives.
Lens effect strikes again.
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/
