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Article: Rail Cars to Be Cosmic Carriages for the Masses, THE MOSCOW TIMES
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- The Moscow Times (Russia)
- Article date:
- March 25, 2003
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Using space technology, compartments could transform from two-person
luxury sleepers into six-seater suburban commuters.
Futuristic space technology and Russia's creaking train system might
seem light years apart, but a construction company in Ukraine is changing
all that.
Their concept of train cars made with space age materials may be
a
reality as early as August.
Ukraine's Dneprvagonremstroi, once the Soviet Union's leading train
car and locomotive repair plant, last year approached the Railways
Ministry
with an offer to invent a car with compartments that can metamorphose
from
two-person luxury sleepers to six-seat suburban commuters in just
20 minutes.
While ...
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