"Would be interesting to know when it was made; I don't speak Russian, but I definitely recognized Malenkov in the view of the party Congress, and I thought the bald speaker must be Khrushchev, which would make it mid-50s at the latest- my gut instinct from the clothing and film quality would have been that it dated from the late 1930s. Russian railway practice is fascinating: much more heavily influenced by American railroad practice than any other European nation."
The film is made up of clips from different time periods. At the end is a clip of an ER200. The ER200, a high speed train - 124 mph max. was designed in 1973. It was in commercial service on the Moscow-St Petersberg line from 1 March 1984 to 28 February 2009.
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Train of tank cars at 11:49, there are a couple men riding on the cars. Russian hobos?
I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.
I don't have a leg to stand on.
Would be interesting to know when it was made; I don't speak Russian, but I definitely recognized Malenkov in the view of the party Congress, and I thought the bald speaker must be Khrushchev, which would make it mid-50s at the latest- my gut instinct from the clothing and film quality would have been that it dated from the late 1930s. Russian railway practice is fascinating: much more heavily influenced by American railroad practice than any other European nation.
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"The first transition era - wood to steel!"
Comrades,
Thanks for commenting. You make Comrade Stalin proud! I'm amazed at how few discussions exist about international freight lines.
And here's one that's more steam-oriented, along with this one with some really early footage.
That's one of the ALCo RSD-1 copies, or maybe even one of the original exports, classed Da. I'd like to build one, but I can't seem to procure any trucks.
2-14-4 at 13:42
21:18 Alco switcher?
28:06 How nice of that engineer opening the door for the fireman.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
The film seems to be promoting the electrics over steam. Modern, clean, quiet. Those electrics wrere probably new when the film was made
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Thank's, nice to see some thing a little different.
Ken G Price My N-Scale Layout
Digitrax Super Empire Builder Radio System. South Valley Texas Railroad. SVTRR
N-Scale out west. 1996-1998 or so! UP, SP, Missouri Pacific, C&NW.
In case you are interested, here is a vintage Soviet Railways promotional video on Youtube. It focuses on (mainly Boxacb) electric equipment, but it's also got some nice B&W footage of steam, rolling stock, and lineside, along with COLOR RECORDING of a steam excurison in the U.S.S.R.