The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles, for example locomotives, railroad cars, coaches, private railroad cars and wagons. A connected series of railway vehicles is a train.
A railroad car, railcar, railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck, also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport system. Such cars, when coupled together and hauled by one or more locomotives, form a train. Alternatively, some passenger cars are self-propelled in which case they may be either single railcars or make up multiple units.
The JSCSukhoi Company was a major Soviet and now a Russian aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Begovoy District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, that designs both civilian and military aircraft. It was founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau. During February 2006, the Russian government merged Sukhoi with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation.
A railway brake is a type of brake used on the cars of railway trains to enable deceleration, control acceleration (downhill) or to keep them immobile when parked. While the basic principle is similar to that on road vehicle usage, operational features are more complex because of the need to control multiple linked carriages and to be effective on vehicles left without a prime mover. Clasp brakes are one type of brakes historically used on trains.
UralVagonZavod is a Russian machine building company located in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.
Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.
Russian Railways is a Russian fully state-owned vertically integrated railway company, both managing infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services.
Metrowagonmash is an engineering company in Mytishchi, Russia. Metrowagonmash (MWM) is one of the leading enterprises in Russia operating in the field of transport machine building. It specializes in development, designing and manufacturing of rolling stock for metro systems and railways. Metrowagonmash is part of Transmashholding.
CJSC Transmashholding is the largest manufacturer of locomotives and rail equipment in Russia and after merging with LocoTech service the fourth largest engineering company in the field of transport technology globally.
CSR Corp., Ltd., formerly known as China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corp., Ltd. was a Chinese manufacturer of locomotive and rolling stock.
Arbel Fauvet Rail (AFR) is a railway rolling stock manufacturer based in Douai, France. In 2010 the company was acquired by Titagarh Wagons and renamed AFR Titagarh.
PT Industri Kereta Api (Persero), abbreviated as INKA, is a rolling stock manufacturer. It is completely owned by the Government of Indonesia.
Titran-Express is a company based in Tikhvin in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Throughout the plants history it has been associated with metal mechanical engineering, and manufacture of components for large-scale transportation equipment such as bogies for rail vehicles, tank tracks or tractor parts.
CRRC Shandong Co. Ltd. , formerly also known as JRVEC, is a railway rolling stock factory located in Jinan, Shandong, China, established in 1910 as a workshop of the Jinpu Railway.
Russian Machines is a Russian conglomerate that consists of industrial and engineering divisions. The group currently operates 27 plants throughout 12 regions in Russia and produces mechanical engineering products including motor vehicles, car parts, rail cars, aircraft, farming and construction equipment. Russian Machines was established in 2011 from a group of industrial assets owned by Basic Element, a Russian industrial group which wholly owns Russian Machines.
Port Management Company is the Russian stevedore company fulfilling the powers of the sole executive body of the specialized coal sea ports of Russia located in the Far East and in the Baltic Sea region.
Roman Savushkin — professor Russian Transport University (MIIT). Received a degree of the St. Petersburg State Transport University and University Antwerp Management School. Roman Savushkin holds scientific degree of PhD in Technical Sciences and acting professor of the Russian University of Transport (MIIT). Awarded with honored order for the distinguished achievements by the Russian Ministry of Transport. In 2018 and 2019, he entered the TOP-5 CEO of Russian engineering at the Association of Managers and the daily business newspaper Kommersant.
Alexey Sokolov is the Chairman of the Council of the Railway Equipment and Technology Test Centers Association, Vice President of the Railway Rolling Stock Producers and Users Union. Alexey Sokolov graduated from St. Petersburg State Transport University. He is a professor at the Russian University of Transport (MIIT) and possesses a doctoral degree in engineering sciences. He is a leading scientist in railcar building and heavy haul railway technologies in the CIS.
