Armenian Train

A train picks up passengers at the Gyumri station in the Republic of Armenia circa 2006. Copyright © 2007, Jason Paul Kazarian. All rights reserved. More Armenia photo galleries at:

http://leftbrainedgeeks.com/gitc/extras.php

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• train
• railroad
• railfan
• railfanning
• Gyumri
• Republic
• of
• Armenia

[traindude80]

The Soviet VL80 is such a majestic locomotive. I wish Armenia will recognize what a gift the USSR has left them. To see that locomotive in that state kills me inside...

[jpkazarian]

@traindude80 The Armenian railroads are now run under a thirty year concession agreement with the Russian railroads. There has been a lot of maintenance performed since this was shot. See youtube.com /watch?v=uuAbCEIBHk0 for a video of this same train taken two years later. The maintenance improvements are obvious.

[raelien123]

notice the soviet star on the first locomotive!The train is at least 50 years old if not more.

We need to update the transport sector

except for the subways.

[jpkazarian]

The first locomotive of this service was produced in 1953 and an update was done in 1961. So indeed, this locomotive is at least 45 years old.

The transport sector does need updates. But electric locomotives do not wear out like diesel-electric ones. Changes in maintenance and operations are needed more then changes in motive power.

[jpkazarian]

The freight unit that goes by at video time 00:20 is a VL80T or VL82 Bo-Bo+Bo-Bo, 32.8 m long, 433 kN tractive effort, 110 km/h top speed. The lead passenger unit probably is similar, but with different gearing. Have no idea what the second passenger unit is.

[urchalka2000]

Interesting video. I have never seen an elektrichka being pulled by locomotives before. Russian elektrichkas are commuter trains that run without locomotives. Armenia's elektrichkas must be so old that they can't run on their own...

[Chapas45]

It's just too bad that Armenia is like the size of L.A. County.

[steinberg2007]

@traindude80 : Agree! I'm also a huge fan of the Soviet locomotives, but got to say that the main loc shot in this video is ВЛ10 and not 80...

[traindude80]

@1mert You mean 20th century.

[bato837]

wow super armenians train :d

[Isochest]

@jpkazarian Well said. As you say electrics last longer. I regularly see electric locos 45+ years old still working freights into and out of our local terminal. The diesels are on the most part 10-15 years old at most. And who wants diesels with the price of oil set to go through the roof and in the future, if you can get it.

[ruben3198]

@1mert NO.we just dont useing trains,that why dont need to buy them.

[MrAzad90]

Hahahaha! It looks like Kongo's train!)))

[1mert]

Looks like Armenia had been stuck somewhere in 19th centry