Wanna buy some european rolling stock ?

[Mario_v]

Hello all ;

It sems  that my contry's state railroad has an agrement with a railroad stock broker/seller from the Us. -anyway, , ithis lot there are some Alco/MLW units, and these are all broad gauge (1,668 mm gauge, or 'iberian' gauge). Here are the links ;

http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/detail.asp?id=1602&n=Montreal-Locomotive-Works-European-Locomotives--NEW

http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/detail.asp?id=1604&n=European-BarParlor-Cars-NEW

 

http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/detail.asp?id=1613&n=Bombardier-European-Locomotives-NEW

http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/detail.asp?id=1605&n=European-2nd-Class-Coaches-NEW

 

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

I'm surprised that a firm from the United States is acting as the broker.  The only likely customers that come to mind would be in Argentina, Brazil or possibly Australia.

[GDRMCo]

They won't be coming to Aus.

[Mario_v]

Well, I won't be seeing any sales to argentina, not because of  gauge (actually it's quite not the same, ARG being 1672 mm and Brazil's 1600mm, but the  locos and cars would fit 'propely' after some minor interventions), but due to a 'bad experience' in the past, in wich some rolling stock was sold to some railways there - by portuguese CP and Spanish Rewnfe - and allegedly never payed. To Brazil maybe, but the couplers woud have to be changed anyway, since their railroads follow their most northerly neighbour's practices, (long trains of iron ore), and I don't see them deriving form their actual practice of buying brand new GE Dash 9s and SD70Ms (EMD and GE even have factories there)

[Mario_v]

Curiously, all of the adds metion that both cars and locos can be retrucked, but all systems are completely different form the ones in use in ammerican RRS, and I do not mean only couplers and the disposition of air brakes. also the electrical systems rae way too different