The Moscow Underground - An Outward Glance
All in all the Moscow underground has 15 depots. “Izmailovo” was opened in January, 14th, 1950. Initially it was a subdivision of “Sokol” depot and later it became independent.
Train vs. Digger
If a train meets a digger in a fair battle who will win?
In Latvia they had a chance to check it recently.
City Trains
In some Russian and ex-Soviet cities there are places where train rails are situated very close to some nice scenery.
Trains of Russia
Russia is a big country and trains are widely used all across it. See some of them from Russia and nearest ex-Soviet states.
And One More Time..
And if to continue today the story about the strange crashes - this guy on Lada failed to pass by the standing train and touched it with the car’s left side. It was not some moving train, this railroad is very rarely used these days - you can tell this from those green plants growing between the rails, and there was plenty of space in front of the train but he preferred not to notice it.
Abandoned Soviet Trains In Belarus
We’ve already posted the pictures of abandoned trains of Soviet Era in Abkhazia and Northern Siberian lands of Russia. Here are some new shots of such a place in Brest (Belarus).
Train Wreckage Between Moscow and St. Petersburg
A few days ago a train crashed between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Some say there was an explosion of some kind of a mine on the rails. Luckily there were no victims.
Party in a Metro Train
Where do they carry this plastic tables? Can you guess? They going to have a party to commemorate a memory of one Russian poet Prigov which passed away not long ago, and they want to do it in a really extraordinary way - in the subway train. See more:
Soviet Jet Train. Some More History.
In our recent publications we’ve told once about the strange Soviet projects of terrestrial and water vehicles (a train and a ship) with jet engines.
If you are looking for more, here are some additional facts about the train.
Stalin’s Lost Railway
We’ve had recently an abandoned railway in Abkhazia, abandoned as a result of USSR collapse when new “independent” republics couldn’t maintain the complicated and high-cost USSR legacy objects. But this one was abandoned long before the USSR collapse, it was doomed to be abandoned from the beginning. It was built by a personal Stalin’s order in the middle of nowhere - deep inside Northern Siberia between Salekhard city and Igarka town. It was not connected with any other Russian Federal Railway System and the purpose of it still is not very clear, so as a senseless toy it way abandoned pretty soon and now rusts accessible only with a helicopter.
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