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rj3 | 03:01 PM |
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"The Railways and IAF had even explored the option of using the heavy-lift MI-26 choppers to carry the coaches suspended on chains from Jammu, the nearest railhead to Srinagar. But as the coaches weigh nearly 50 tonnes apiece, that option had to be abandoned."
Can't you just picture that? You look up, and flying over head is a 50 ton rail coach hanging from a helicopter?
A few years back IE (Irish Railways) ordered some new locomotives (the 201 class) built by General Motors in the US. While most of them came by ship, they wanted to get one delivered early for artisan training in the maintentance shops.
So they flew the thing across the Atlantic in a Russian tranport plane!
(I think the plane they used was an Antonov AN124 as mentioned in the article)
