Progress!

(IRNA)

The Iranian regime celebrated today the unveiling of its first diesel locomotive.
Fars News reported:

Iran on Tuesday unveiled the first diesel-engine locomotive, produced by the country’s experts, in a ceremony attended by First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi.

After unveiling the diesel engine locomotive, Rahimi was briefed on the potentialities of this national achievement gained by the Iranian experts.

This diesel locomotive has been produced at the cost of 77 billion rials and it is about 3,710 kilos in weight.

Its engine power is rated at 1,000 kW per minute.

The world’s first Diesel-powered locomotive was operated in the summer of 1912 on the Winterthur-Romanshorn Railroad in Switzerland.

 

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  1. #1 March 29, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    Neo commented:

    cost of 77 billion rials = $7.1 million

  2. #2 March 29, 2011 at 4:37 pm

    Noah commented:

    How long before someone blows it up??? I would think train and Islam two things that do not work well together.

  3. #3 March 29, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    Ginger commented:

    noah ….I was thinking the same thing. :)

  4. #4 March 29, 2011 at 4:41 pm

    LarryBrasfield commented:

    Power has units “unit of energy” / “unit of time”. For example, Joules/second, also
    known as Watts. “1,000 kW” could be a power rating, but “1,000 kW per minute”
    cannot. In all likelihood, the reporter has demonstrated the ignorance typical of
    journalists. Or, perhaps, the “expert” source is ignorant of such fundamentals.

  5. #5 March 29, 2011 at 4:41 pm

    tommy mc donnell commented:

    they’re making progress. se how well NASA’s outreach to the muslim world is working.

  6. #6 March 29, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    american patriot commented:

    All aboard, Chug, Chug, for a direct line to the 7th century.

    Once you’re on the Islam train, there’s no getting off alive.

    Anyone willing to take any bets that everything on that locomotive is not some sort of copy from some other country?

    Muslims are incapable of thinking, having shifted their brains into reverse as soon as they recite the shahada.

  7. #7 March 29, 2011 at 4:55 pm

    Buffalobob commented:

    I hope Obama’s NASA mooslem outreach is aware of this. Hell at this rate they will invent fire any day now.

  8. #8 March 29, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    Floyd Looney commented:

    On the cutting edge!!

  9. #9 March 29, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    Songtan1 commented:

    If only they worked at this pace with their Nukes.

  10. #10 March 29, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:

    #6: American Patriot.

    I’m almost certain that if you look closely at that photo, you’ll see the words “Winterthur-Romanshorn” stamped into the side of the restored Diesel Engine.

  13. #13 March 29, 2011 at 5:33 pm

    Auntie Em commented:

    LOL!! That is too funny! I am actually surprised!

  14. #14 March 29, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    Hedgehog commented:

    This explains the Obamunist’s fascination with high speed rail. Can’t let those Iranian geniuses get the best of us.

  15. #15 March 29, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    dwd commented:

    Uh oh, Obama’s going to use this to push high speed rail…

  16. #16 March 29, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    SSBN 627(B) commented:

    Not sure regarding the 1000kW/minute, but I know for sure that 3,710 kilos = 8,144 lbs.

    Roughly.

    Little bit heavier than a Ford F350 duelie.

    Probably don’t tow as much.

  17. #17 March 29, 2011 at 6:11 pm

    daryl commented:

    Altogether now……. sing it with Achmadenijad

    This train is bound for glory, this train.
    This train is bound for glory, this train.
    This train is bound for glory,
    Don’t carry nothing but the righteous and the holy.
    This train is bound for glory, this train.

    This train don’t carry no liars, this train;
    This train don’t carry no liars, this train;
    This train don’t carry no liars,
    She’s streamlined and a midnight flyer,
    This train don’t carry no liars, this train.

    This train don’t carry no rustlers, this train;
    This train don’t carry no rustlers, this train;
    This train don’t carry no rustlers,
    Sidestreet walkers, two bit hustlers,
    This train is bound for glory, this train.

  18. #18 March 29, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    Fenway_Nation commented:

    As far as I know, the Iranian railways are still using American diesel locomotives from back when the shah was in power, limping along with parts made under liscence in Yugoslavia back in the 80s.

    I would not be the least bit surprised to learn if this was a locally produced copy of a Russian or Chinese diesel locomotive

  19. #19 March 29, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    scituate_tgr commented:

    Everyone jump upon the peace train
    Come on now peace train

    Get your bags together, go bring your good friends too
    Cause it’s getting nearer, it soon will be with you

    Now come and join the living, it’s not so far from you
    And it’s getting nearer, soon it will all be true

    Now I’ve been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
    Why must we go on hating, why can’t we live in bliss

    Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
    Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again

    The Religion of Peace Train

  20. #20 March 29, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    oh no- no- no-, you see, they invented it, it’s just that they didn’t have
    the means to build their own before Obama was crowned Caliph in Chief,
    besides, the other half of his brain is Iranian..

    wait, you’ll see, they not only discovered America, but were first to land
    on the moon    , not to mention inventing the zero, oh wait.. now that, if
    we count the One sitting the double zero room in the WH, they may have
    accomplished, but still, who could have guessed?? /data sarc :D /

    ==

  21. #21 March 29, 2011 at 6:46 pm

    befuddled commented:

    i don’t think when the 13th imam comes he will be riding a diesel locomotive. Doom i tell you. all this modern technology will lead them only to the abyss. it’s only a matter of time before the gays start appearing in their country. maybe we can send some of those Westboro church folks over to warn them.

  22. #22 March 29, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    scituate_tgr #19

    8)

    this is cool too..

    ==

  23. #23 March 29, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    M Malone commented:

    Is that a still from Silver Streak?

  24. #24 March 29, 2011 at 6:50 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    daryl #17

    lol, i believe they think so.. :D

    ==

  25. #25 March 29, 2011 at 6:54 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    btw, that might turn out to be just a pic, like the ones of their rockets..

    ==

  26. #26 March 29, 2011 at 6:55 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Fenway_Nation #18

    me neither..

    ==

  27. #27 March 29, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    Chisum commented:

    They photo shopped the cowboys and Indians out of the picture.

  28. #28 March 29, 2011 at 6:59 pm

    Doug commented:

    I’d like a peek “under the hood” to see if any parts were made by GE.

  29. #29 March 29, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    thanks #11 & #12 Ginger..

    ==

  30. #30 March 29, 2011 at 7:28 pm

    Joanne commented:

    Inbreeding causes lower IQ’s – very understandable.

  31. #31 March 29, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    Varmint Hunter commented:

    So they’ll use this new train to tow their new flying saucer to its launch pad?

  32. #32 March 29, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    joscefi commented:

    “Iran on Tuesday unveiled the first diesel-engine locomotive, produced by the country’s experts, in a ceremony attended by First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi.”

    Well, isn’t that just special? Next thing you know, they’ll be dabbling with splitting atoms, and curing islamophobia….

  33. #33 March 29, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    befuddled commented:

    What ever will become of the recently built steam powered locomotive from Tehran to Qom?

  34. #35 March 29, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    grizzlybare commented:

    How much did our administration help to fund the project? Bam just loves the current regime over there.

  35. #36 March 30, 2011 at 2:52 am

    Andreas K. commented:

    Something is weird.

    3,710 kilos… that’s 3.7 tons. That’s far too lightweight for a diesel engine.

    A few examples:

    German railways Class 215, weight 79 tons (79,000 kilos), tank held 3,050 liters (fuel), 2,850 liters (water), 690 liters (oil), 320 kilos (sand). Class 225, same weight, similar stats. Class 240, 117 tons. And so on. The 240s were built in 1989, with a power output of 2,650 kW (3,550 hp)

  36. #37 March 30, 2011 at 10:31 am

    B-line commented:

    I think this is a photo of the engineer with the new, great leap forward for Iran. (Sarc)

    http://media.gosanangelo.com/media/img/photos/2010/03/23/20100323-201322-pic-797673326_t607.jpg

    Here it is in action. I am awe struck by it’s sheer power. (Sarc)

    http://www.thebubbler.com/gallery/data/515/00120072.JPG

    I challenge anyone to come up with a better explanation for the weight descrepency.

  37. #38 March 30, 2011 at 11:54 am

    burt commented:

    Now if they could refine oil into diesel fuel, they could run this train.

  38. #39 March 30, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    Stuart commented:

    Don’t you fools know that Moslems invented the train?… And the flying saucer. And cars, and refrigerators, and the lightbulb, and radio, telephones airplanes, and everything else, all during the middle ages when Christian Europeans were mired up to their necks in pig S***.
    How do I know? Obama told me so.

    And NASA outreach initiatives confirmed it.

  39. #40 March 30, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    Wondering Aloud commented:

    Larry Brasfield is right 1000kw/minute doesnt make sense and a locomotive this small is hardly worth the trouble. Of course journalists are all the folks who failed tech ed and physical science courses so it is probably just a mistake

    However if they can manufacture practical modern locomotives that would be a big deal for any islamic country.

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