... This year the Estonian passenger railway operator EVR Ekspress changed its owners and subsequently the name of the company was changed to GoRail. This...
I once saw something written that, in the far northern Arctic areas of Russia (I think, Norilsk-Dudinka), there is some method used which "refrigerates" the...
Answering Peter (Bergs?): In close-scale work, bubbling liquid nitrogen through the soil is one technique, used to facilitate excavating tunnels for...
I doubt the method of refigrate the track bed in Arctic regions in Russia. Much cheaper way was piling the track bed across the swamps,bogs and marshy...
I have noticed that the last section of Murmansk Railway running still behind diesel power, the Svir - Medveszhja Gora 270 km, was also by chance the section...
Hi, ... Great! Thanks a lot! Very interesting to see that some place names have been just "russianized" to sound somewhat more russian, like ... some have been...
Patrick Yes,I have all the details you asked for.Your translations were correct except uu = new, the correct version is: uusi = new.Uutela is a old Karelian...
Patrick I found more details out of Peter´s Iron and Gun Factory from my notes. The " Petrovskij zavod " was formed from a number of small works of which the...
Is there somwhere in the Internet detailed assembley with measurement of the SA3 coupler shaft and draft gears? Also, are the "shelves" as on the picture on...
Dear Sirs, We are an association of mechanical engineers from EU (European Union) countries, and we have started a train components research and development ...
Patrick I start with opening dates of the railways in ceded area. St.Petersburg Line Riihimäki - Pietari ( St.Petersburg ) Line 1870 Of this line 41...
... lines here at home. ... Hi Jukka, At first I would like to thank you for all your input during the year. Unfortunately I cannot help at the moment as most...
Thanks Eljas I found them.The corrected list of railway lines opening dates in the Grand Duchy of Finland which were ceded to Soviet Union were as follows: ...
Best wishes to all of you for 2006 !! Yesterday I watched (parts of) this film [Omar Sharif] and wondered about where the railway scenes might have been taken....
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Jan 2, 2006 8:13 am
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... about where the railway scenes might have been taken. ... Railway footage was filmed in Canada, Spain and Finland during winter 1965. The Finnish scenes...
Some parts of Doctor Zhivago was filmed in the Canadian Rockies, around Lake Louise. Doug They are published as appendix 5 to the SMGS. A web search on...
... envelopes). ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ At http://wb947655.bahnhofbredband.se/Lastprofil-kina.jpg The blue lines...
The only Canadian scene left after the cutting room crew had done their stuff was a quick glimpse out of a moving boxcar door on the Canadian Pacific...
I seem to recall that the scenes filmed in Spain were done on the old Santander - Meditteraneo line. But no clear idea where exactly. (It was a long time ago) ...
Well.well I remember also the big dissapoitment when I saw first time from train window the Urals.It was the Chinese train from Moscow to Peking via Uulan...
My dearest thanks to the Sirs who have so comprehensively answered my question ! The Tv2 masquerading as ovechka (or so) did it really quite well. Michael C....
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Jan 3, 2006 1:54 pm
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... This was actually "crushed marble dust", according to John Huntley's book, "Railways on the Screen" (Ian Allan Ltd, Shepperton, 1993 - ISBN 0 7110 2059 0)....
Neil Worthington
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Jan 3, 2006 7:52 pm
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Hello, ... [...] Thanks, Jukka, for all the dates... ... Must be Beloostrov - Sestroretsk in Russian, right? A russian source shows 1925 as opening year for...
A series of letters was published in the Continental Railway Journal nos. 12, 14 and 16. From these it was reported that at least some of the Spanish scenes...
Valkeasaari ( Beloostrov ) - Siestarjoki [ Systerbäck ] ( Sestroretsk ) Branch. Dmitri & Patrick Sorry,but the first line run on the northern bank of...
Dear Sir, Thank you very much for your answer. It was real useful. In exchange, we send you a UIC loading gauge diagram, which is hidden in our website. You...
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