Thursday, February 4, 2010

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By train "Russia." Part 1 - from Moscow to Irkutsk. 5153 km.

early January, when the days are short - not the best time to travel. Most major stations of the first part of the route we passed in the dark. But something was off:


a frosty haze.


Perm-2 took the side of the platform, next to the post and the baggage train.


Railway Station Sverdlovsk-Passenger (Ekaterinburg).


Supply baggage car with coal in Omsk. Although the entire path is provided by electric heating train, mail and baggage cars fueled by old-fashioned way.


from Sverdlovsk to Barabinsk pulls us the good old "Cheburashka" - electric CS2.


Omsk. Station sketches.


elevator in the Baraba Steppe.


And here he Barabinsk - Precinct station and a large locomotive depot. Passengers famous because there are selling cakes from Karaseva caviar. Now, however, does not a season.


Here ES-2 is installed on eternal parking. Deserve!


phone in the waiting room.


This machine - the representative of new technologies on our railways - it drains bins composting toilets. On the one hand it is good that there is no sanitary zones. On the other - the smell himzhidkosti accompanied us the whole way. Something is not thought to TVZ ...


Novosibirsk-chief - one of the largest stations in Russia. Some time was the largest in the USSR.


Dual water tower in Ilan. Such unusual forms of construction are not uncommon at this site Transsiberian - apparently, the usual tower was not enough, but two separate contain still more difficult than one twin.


Taishet - the "bottleneck" of railway network in Russia. There actually begins the famous BAM.


Nizhneudinsk. First novomodernovy Station on the Trans-Siberian, which appeared here by Minister G. M. Fadeev, many years worked in Nizhneudinsk.


Station Winter justifies its name - it was the coldest place all the way: -43 o C.


dawn Irkutsk.

Two hours later, the train descends to Lake Baikal. To be continued! That's what

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