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....
Michael.Daut@...
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....
Michael.Daut@...
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...
Thanks Reimar to find you on these Dmitri´s pages. The main thing is to provide really that information what really happeded during those turbulant years of...
In "Lokotrans 11/2005" there was a picture of "TE-7336" set up as memorial in Sowjetsk. Well, that is impossible as 52 7336 was withdrawn at DR in 1951. So...
Nothing is impossible. According to my notes: DRB 52.7336 WLF 16789 1943 at first allocated to RBD Breslau evacuated in 3.1945 to RBD Dresden Bf Zittau...
TE.7386 was in the 18-loco strategic reserve on the Polish border at Zheleznodorozhniy, Kaliningrad Railway, in 1995. It has now been preserved and is on a...
Gentlemen There is a confuse in old Imperial Russian sources which were published in 1915 and describing the takeover of Austrian Railways in Galitzia. The...
The mystery deepens! I was in the kaliningrad area in June 1999. My notes show that TE-7386 was at Krasnovka south of Chernjahovsk. It was cut up - scrapped,...
I would be (relatively) glad if someone could tell me the (Russian) meaning of the abbreviation "TCh" for TMD [Traction Maintenance Depot]or Bw...
Michael.Daut@...
Jan 10, 2006 1:10 pm
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Thank you for all your comments. So I fear the only solution to find out the identity is to investigate the locomotive itself ... Best wishes Ingo ... From:...
Ingo Hütter
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Jan 10, 2006 4:37 pm
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Gentlemen What I told.According to MPS Leningrad archive neither locos ex DRB 52.7336 and 52.7386 were included in MPS stock. The archive shows from 7300-7399...
Gentlemen DRB 52.3646 ( WLF 17229 1943 ) is again a good example how complicate locomotive historian´s work can be. DRB 52.3646 was reported on 01.06.1944 as...
... Not only it is reported (by A. Yushenkov in 2004), but we have an actiual photograph of it: http://www.parovoz.com/newgallery/index.php?ID=20980&LNG=EN ......