Railway Depot + Trains

in GEMS5 years ago

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That one was moving. But the depot that along a street in an industrial area was completely quiet. There was nobody and no machines were being operated.

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Part of the mechanism connecting the cars

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Does it look better in black and white?

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The gravel car controls of the ballast tamping machine

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One of the engines

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I love the timing! The driver's cabin was right between those poles and the driver's head was perfectly aligned with the window and myself.

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An electric locomotive. That's an Sr1. It's Russian/Soviet made. It was manufactured in Novotšerkasski between 1973 and 1996. It's proven to be a reliable model. It's still in use both in freight and passenger traffic. Finland has the same railway gauge as Russia save for a later adjustment of a few millimeters in Finland. That's because the first railway in Finland were built in the 1850's during autonomy as part of the Russian Empire. It was between Helsinki and Hämeenlinna between Helsinki and Tampere.