19.6.10

ON A LIST THAT WAS LATER MISPLACED. Communist inefficiency has unintended consequences. The latest issue of The Railway Magazine to reach Cold Spring Shops includes pictures of the locomotives for Jugoslavia's Blue Train, a definitely non-proletarian conveyance for Marshal Tito, covered with graffiti somewhere in Serbia, and a relatively recent photograph of a British experimental diesel, Kestrel, that the Sovs purchased for conversion to a turbine locomotive, derelict but not scrapped. Is it too much to ask ...

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