Friday, July 07, 2006

Could an 124 Mriya carry Hitlers train Amerika?

Pictures of the army radio used Telefunken Transmitter from Hitler's Train found U.S. in Army Signal Corps Museum at Fort Monmouth in the 1960 from Eisenbahn Panzerzuge BefehlPanzerzuge - command armoured train, Hitlers private train named Amerika, but how heavy is a train?

Late on the evening of September 3, 1939, Hitler exchanged the elegant marbled halls of the Chancellery for the special train, Amerika, parked in a dusty Pomeranian railroad station surrounded by parched and scented pine trees and wooden barrack huts baked dry by the central European sun.

Never before had Germany’s railroads conveyed a train like this—a cumbersome assemblage of twelve or fifteen coaches hauled by two locomotives immediately followed by armored wagons bristling with 20-millimeter antiaircraft guns.

Flown by Antonov Airlines, Volga-Dniepr, Poliot and other airlines, the AN-124 is used to transport different cargoes all over the world. Customers have contracted the planes to fly such varied cargo as 90-ton hydraulic turbines, American Euclid dump trucks, the fuselage of a Tu-204 passenger transporter, a 109-ton railway locomotive and a sea yacht more than 25m long.

The aircraft is designed for long-range delivery and air dropping of heavy and large cargo, including machines, equipment and troops. It entered service in 1986, and more than 55 aircraft have been built.

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