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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Iran Builds Diesel Locomotives

Iran National Railways (INR) today unveiled its first homemade diesel engine locomotive. INR also announced plans to build 330 of these locomotives in the next three years. These locomotives weight 3,700 kilos and their engine power rates at 1,000 kW per minute.

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  1. I heard this 100 times during last 30 years.

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  2. now u must feel how some of us feel, hering the holocaust story over and over again

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  3. Kilowatt means continuous power, "per minute" has no use here, unless you want to imply that the engine breaks down after one minute.

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