Wait, doesn’t North Korea have one of them too,(reply>), hedgehog3180, ahh, my point was that the bloc countries have crazy armoured trains, like the one we saw in North Korea.  The American and European trains have the one armoured carriage for weight limitations but soviet-era trains are behemoths of steel plating due to the higher weight limits of a wider gauge of rail.<br><br>Military locomotives over there make western freight trains look as fragile as our freight trains make passenger trains look.,(reply>), Rob Fraser It's hardly exclusive to east bloc countries. The Royal families of most European countries have one and still use them some times. We don't really have data on the North Korean one (surprisingly) but we can probably assume that given it's more modern it is better made.,(reply>), Most communist or former soviet rulers do, and usually much heavier with armoured engines.  Kimmy used his a week back to visit Shanghai.