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Transport Fever

Ikarus 260 Railbus
25 Comments
Insurance Man 27 Aug, 2020 @ 8:59am 
this is butiful
shadowoner00013 26 Jan, 2019 @ 2:25am 
One correction: This still exists in a garage, but after a test run, they scrapped the idea because the Czech trains were cheaper to just buy than producing more of these.
sirrliv 8 Jul, 2018 @ 1:57pm 
Another DMU that I initially dismissed as a novelty; good looking, but too niche to really be useful. Then I tried one out on an urban shuttle line, linking two passenger stations, and I was stunned. They're not fast, but 60 kph is good enough for short distances, and a 25 passenger capacity is small, but still useful. What really blew me away though was their acceleration, able to go from standing to full speed within a couple seconds. I've seen electric engines that couldn't accelerate like that! These little beauties are perfect for urban shuttles and metro lines, a great light rail vehicle. Though, like their British cousin the Pacer, keep them off the main line.
buz 30 May, 2018 @ 2:41pm 
pacer
leongotowala 5 Apr, 2018 @ 11:22pm 
DOBRE
Albion 21 Feb, 2018 @ 1:06pm 
The model has no texture? just black?
captinjoehenry 18 Jan, 2018 @ 11:23am 
This is a pretty nice train. So be it as it is litterly a street bus put on rails it costs a silly amount. Roughly 3 times as much as a bus with the same stats. And as this is litterly a street bus put on rails it seems a bit too costly to buy and run :P
Moskwitch 412 >>MOSSI<< 14 Aug, 2017 @ 4:35am 
pls, can you give this original model as bus.
Was in GDR most present vehicle as bus. in orange or blue/white or red/white.
I very happy you are can doing :steamhappy:
AleX_BY  [author] 9 Apr, 2017 @ 11:29pm 
@sepruecom, thank you for info! ;)
sepruecom 8 Apr, 2017 @ 6:28am 
That bus was an experiment by the Hungarian State Railway to decrease running costs of low traffic rural railway lines. It was a standard city bus fitted with railway wheels (so it could not run on the streets) and strutted steering mechanism. It proved to be a horrible failure, since it was a single ended car (thus needing turntables at the end of the line), also the wheel base turned out to be unfavourable for a rail car (thus making the ride rather unconfortable). The bus was converted back to street operation and run for a couple of years in rural Hungary. According to Wikipedia, it is still running (as a street bus) in Szeged in Southern Hungary. During its rail years, it only ran a few test services and did not get into regular revenue traffic.

Further Infos: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%81V_Ikarus_260 (Hungarian)
Sprinter15x 5 Apr, 2017 @ 4:10pm 
To add to a previous comment here, the unit has no texture/colour when set to a line.
Mr. RotFuchs 3 Apr, 2017 @ 4:02am 
maby doors on both sides ?
1ak0nia 2 Apr, 2017 @ 2:15am 
for some reason, it may just be my computer but the bus had no texture when i set it to a line. maybe look into thid please. thanks
Shevelvskiy 1 Apr, 2017 @ 6:08pm 
А простой икарус будет?
ARTEM-nik 1 Apr, 2017 @ 12:55pm 
Баян
ShinArt 1 Apr, 2017 @ 11:57am 
сделайте ему двери с двух сторон)
Han Mark 1 Apr, 2017 @ 11:35am 
Вау!!! Не, ну честно, автобус один в один, просто колеса другие:steamhappy:
Молодец, Алекс!!!
MichDem 1 Apr, 2017 @ 10:57am 
It'd be great to add multi-unit version:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8241/8580200835_20b7abf473_z.jpg

Yey for repurpossing!
derflo 1 Apr, 2017 @ 10:18am 
Looking cool :D
Abbittibbi 1 Apr, 2017 @ 10:16am 
Nice, thank you!
medicann 1 Apr, 2017 @ 9:27am 
please create karosa bus :D
Dell Conagher 1 Apr, 2017 @ 9:09am 
Works both on roads and railway tracks?
Jaguaro 1 Apr, 2017 @ 8:32am 
Классный рельсовый автобус! Супер!
Ilya_IМPОRТ XI 1 Apr, 2017 @ 7:41am 
Круто) Да скорее всего 1 был .
ilyaon77 1 Apr, 2017 @ 7:38am 
Кажется такой всего один был :)