No Tickets, Please!
A funny video of people in the morning catching some train to the city in Moscow.
The ones going down there are the ones who don’t want to pass ticket checking gate.
Get into Your Train
As all big cities Moscow city has railway station too. As a matter of fact that’s not one station there but a whole bunch of it, located in different places in the city and each one serves some particular directions, often the stations named after the direction they serve. For example to go to Ukraine, you can use “Kiev Railway Station” etc.
So today here are some photos from Kursk Railway Station, Moscow. Getting on the train there might be really challenging.
The Story of the String Train
To continue the transportation theme for today, as we had the new trains, now something that was planned to be built 30 years ago, back in 1970s. It was called the “super string transportation system” and was claimed to come to replace the existing rail road technologies.
The steel cords under great tension had to be stretched on the polls across all the country to support the high speed (up to 500 km/h - 300 mph) trains movement.
The project was pretty fast approved by Soviet government because of its cheap cost if compared to conventional rail roads - no need to prepare Earth surface - just put some polls and you are ready to go.
As always, it started with just sketches on paper, made in the manner it looked to be contemporary in 1970s.
New Trains
Now they have new trains going from Moscow to St.Petersburg with the speeds up to 300 km/h (200 mph).
Two Train Stories [updated]
Today we have two photo series connected with trains. First one are shots from what was or still is a train museum in Pereslavl, Russia. It might even look more cool in such semi-abandoned condition.
Personal Railroad
Some people are fond of collecting toy trains and building complex railroads to run them on.
Guys in Russia were not satisfied with such approach. They’ve started building their not-so-toy personal railroad system across their plot. “The best way to move around your land is on your own railroad”, says the guy who made this.
But in winter it gets even more complicated.
Russian Trains Go Off Rails
It’s sad but sometimes trains go off rails.
Two Russian Notebook Uses
Here are two tips from Russian bloggers that were pretty popular in Russia, and might be of some use for someone not in Russia too. Both of them involve computers in some bit not common way.
The first one is about how the small-sized laptop could be used to check if your microwave oven has enough shielding to protect you from dangerous microwave radiation.
Russia: Train Tickets, No
Are you going travel to Russia. Would you like to buy Russian train tickets? Well you don’t need to if you want to feel yourself for a moment Russian. Trainhiking is very common, some do it for fun some for just saving the ticket price.
City Trains
In some Russian and ex-Soviet cities there are places where train rails are situated very close to some nice scenery.
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