The heavy haul train service on the eastern section of the Baikal-Amur mainline

Abstract

The paper is discussed the possible ways for development the heavy haul train service on the Baikal-Amur mainline. Urgent need for new technologies is caused by the growth in cargo flows to the Pacific seaports. Current measures of Russian Railways and Russian Government for increase the capacity of this key section are too late and don’t provide guarantee for reaching the target capacity level. Authors are trying to find the solution by implementing the heavy haul trains technology to pass growing cargo volumes.