A friend is looking for answers to the following questions to write a photo caption. . . . What is the length of the railroad bridge that crosses the Nester...
Not strictly a railway question, but has anybody out there got any detailed information on, or photos of, this bridge. Google finds information about its...
Ian Button
Ian.Button@...
Aug 3, 2006 7:35 am
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A while back my Calgary neighbour and good friend Dr. Roy Krouse most kindly lent to me an official all Soviet Union railways freight and passenger car diagram...
The bridge he is looking for is south of Kamenets-Podolsky and he says it is a huge bridge. Does this help narrow down which bridge it might be? It is still...
Doug Yep.You mean the new bridge on the Kamenetz-Podolsk - Klementsy - Larga connection line which was built by the Soviet Union sometime in 1950s. In this...
Now that we have a better idea of what bridge we are talking about, does anyone have details as to a) when it was built, b) how high it is, or c) how long it...
hello can you please help me find a picture of mail car : OK621 was transfered for passangers and went on tour in russia with pioneers from 14.7.1934 for 45...
Kurt Niederer and other interested. Hello Kurt I have now arranged the POW Invalide Trains H13 / 358 and H 357 / 18 timetable and locomotives which were used...
Gentlemen In spring and summer 1914 this northern communicaton from St.Petersburg become very popular alternative for train service via Baltic Provinces to...
Hello Jukka You wrote: "I just begun to wonder where there also similar trains running via Switzerland during the Great War between Central Powers and Western...
High all (or at least those with tramway orientatipn amongst us) ! On this recent picture: http://parovoz.com/newgallery/index.php?ID=42366&LNG=RU ChME3T-6451...
... Trams 11 and 16 are in operation now. There were some rumors about closing routes 4 and 11, but it was never expressed deliberately. -- Serguei Trouchelle...
Gentlemen Here are the last rolling stock deliveries for private Russian Railways in 1917, as approved by MPS in October 1916. Moscow-Kazan....98 locomotives...
Hi, ... A german website on transporter bridges (www.schwebefaehre.org) claims that it was not a transporter bridge but just a freight gondola lift or so. Now...
Hi, ... A 1:100.000 soviet topographic map (M-35-126) showing the situation in 1982 has two different lines. First, an existing one via ... Muksha - Dnestr...
Hi, ... And meanwhile I learned, the the new bridge and line _have_ been finished in the 80's while the old line is closed (and the old bridge most likely...
When crawling through the book by J. N. Westwood: "Geschichte der Russischen Eisenbahnen" (History of Russian Railways) which was published in 1966 I...
Ingo Hütter
ingo.huetter@...
Aug 23, 2006 9:37 pm
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Hi ! ... I actually didn't find any information when SZD was founded. ... search in archive "5feet" ... 12:51:27AM -0700 Formally, there were no "Soviet...
Hei Ingo After the October Revolution the Russian Private Railways were nationalised in March 1918 and all Russian Common Carrier Railways become under Peoples...
I also heard that the term SZD is nearly unknown in the USSR / SNG. The more I was astonished some years ago to find in the net a picture of a four-axle...
Michael.Daut@...
Aug 24, 2006 7:26 am
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I found the picture(s)on the PC here. Those interested please send address (if it's not more than 200 of them ...) Michael.Daut@... Michael C. Daut DB Netz...
Michael.Daut@...
Aug 24, 2006 8:01 am
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... There were two kinds of railways in ex-USSR: 1. MPS (NKPS in pre-WWll time) railways, state-owned and managed by national government. It was the national...
Hej, i´m founded this picture: http://www.parovoz.com/newgallery/index.php?ID=38038&LNG=RU and i don´t know, is this an refrigerator car with 6 axles?? Can...
If the number starts with 8, yes. Michael C. Daut DB Netz - ÖBD Hamburg I.NIB-N-F 1 HMB Dt Betra, La Hmb=Altona und Maschen, Tel. [040 - 39 18 -] / Basa 930 -...
Michael.Daut@...
Aug 24, 2006 10:05 am
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Hi, ... But the abbreviation SZD (for "Soviet"!) has been used in timetables, brochures, advertising etc. abroad! AFAIK it was like in pre-1920 Prussia: the...
... Inside USSR there was phrase "Zhelesnye dorogi SSSR" (Railroads of the USSR) for the same purpose. For example, "Atlas zheleznyh dorog SSSR" (Atlas or...
Dear all, Thank you very much for all the explanations. And indeed I think especially the comparison with KPEV gives a good understanding what "SZD" was ... ...
Ingo Hütter
ingo.huetter@...
Aug 24, 2006 4:16 pm
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... This is not refrigerator car, this is car for special cargo's (for example rocket blocks etc) with condicioner. Type T208VI, produced in Kalinin (Tver)....