Class-6 Main Line Steam locomotive By Imperator-Zor Watch

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Since 9IA Infrastructure has been making use of rail transport, first for bringing in coal from mines and latter for general transportation. The development and expansion of the rail network has been among the Central Committee's greatest industrial projects. By summer of 36 IA some 3,350 kilometers have been laid and even with resource reallocation in relation to the escort war an average of a kilometer of new rails are being laid daily. This includes Borogskov/Dalatyr line, completed in 26 IA, connecting the capital and industrial heart of Infrastructure with its main ports and shipyards. A down line was completed in 28. Railways offer an efficient way of transporting goods overland at high speeds in both winter and summer. To work these railways, Infrastructure has at it's disposal a considerable fleet of locomotives. Among the most common of these is the Class-6 Main Line Locomotive.



The class six mainline locomotive was first put into production in 27 IA and was designed to be the workhorse of the Infrastructural rail network. Other engines such as the Class-5 Main Line are faster (top speed of 120km/h vs 90km/h) while others like the Class-7 Main Line can pull heavier loads, the Class-6 is easy to produce and maintain, making it excellent for most of Infrastructure's locomotive needs. It masses in at 24.3 tonnes in a 4-4-0 configuration (4 non powered wheels in the front followed by four larger powered wheels behind them) with a total engine power of 450kW set at the standard 1.5 meter gauge. As of summer of 36 IA some 112 of these locomotives have been produced from the Dalatyr Locomotive Factory with production continuing, making it Infrastructure's most common locomotive class by a long mark.



As the name implies, the Class-6 Main Line Engine is intended to traverse the main railways and main branches over long distances. Smaller branch lines in the range of 20 km or less (most of which are within 300km of Dalatyr) are the domain of a fleet of smaller purpose built locomotives as well as older locomotives. Infrastructural locomotives are first numbered, then are named by their crews afterwards.



Most Class-6 locomotives are built as tank engines, but are still able to accept a tender (and generally do). Coal, Charcoal and Wood are all used as fuel for these vehicles. Coloration is usually an indicator of what the main function of a locomotive is. Red is for locomotives which do passenger, mail and freight work for the Infrastructural government, Blue is for commercial freight services (doing work for private business (both Infrastructural and Foreign) paying to send bulk goods long distance along the network), yellow is for utility vehicles such as shunters and those trains involved in general maintenance and expansion of the railway and green is for military use, moving soldiers about and keeping the army supplied. There has been some experimentation with armored trains since the onset of the escort war. In any case, Infrastructural law is quite clear that the railway is owned in it's entirety by the government of Infrastructure. Never the less, passenger services and commercial freight have been a big boon to many enterprising individuals in Infrastructure. As such, the Central Committee gets thousands of letters a year from Hub Town and Village majors, artisans, small business owners and general citizens requesting that their town be granted access to the rail network

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