{"id":195,"date":"2007-12-08T09:51:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T09:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/2007\/12\/08\/dem2717\/"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:45:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:45:55","slug":"dem2717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/dem2717\/","title":{"rendered":"DEM2717 south of Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Curtis served in Iraq with the US infantry, and has sent me this photo of a short IRR train hauled by loco DEM2717 which he took &#8220;just south of Baghdad&#8221; in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/rail\/iq-dem2717-chris_curtis.jpg\"><img src='\/images\/rail\/iq-dem2717-chris_curtis.jpg' title='DEM 2717 south of Baghdad' alt='DEM 2717 south of Baghdad' \/><\/a>\u00a9 Chris Curtis<\/p>\n<p>The 50 locos in the DEM2700 class<\/a> were built by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dloco.com\/ebusiness\/GB\/product_detail.asp?catalogid=17&#038;productid=4\">Dalian Loco<\/a> in China, and delivered to Iraqi Republic Railways from 2002.<\/p>\n<h4>More pics<\/h4>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenceimagedatabase.mod.uk\">Defence Image database<\/a> has a few pictures of railways in Iraq dated 26\/11\/03, which can be found if you search for <i>railway<\/i>. I can&#8217;t figure out if the copyright rules let me put them here or not, but try these links<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2ctvay\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2ctvay<\/a> Members of A Company, 1st Battalion The Royal Scots. On foot patrol in Az-Zubayr south of Basra.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2c824p\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2c824p<\/a>  A member of A Company, 1st Battalion The Royal Scots with Iraqi children, on foot patrol in Az-Zubayr south of Basra crosses rail tracks.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2efxbb\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2efxbb<\/a> A child sits on a rusting railway carriage [actually a freight wagon] as he watches members of A Company, 1st Battalion The Royal Scots on foot patrol Az-Zubayr south of Basra.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Curtis served in Iraq with the US infantry, and has sent me this photo of a short IRR train hauled by loco DEM2717 which he took &#8220;just south of Baghdad&#8221; in 2005. \u00a9 Chris Curtis The 50 locos in the DEM2700 class were built by Dalian Loco in China, and delivered to Iraqi Republic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[27,38,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}