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Article: Trains To Be Cosmic Carriages for Masses, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
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- The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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MOSCOW - 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-seater suburban commuters in just
20
minutes.
While Russian train producers have come up with state of the art
trains, the Ukrainian invention gives the Railways ...
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