Sunday, December 30, 2012

Thursday, December 27, 2012

New tramway AKSM-62103 in Smolensk

Smolensk received an AKSM-62103 tramway from Belkommunmash, Minsk

http://transphoto.ru/list.php?t=1&cid=6&mid=1306

Photo: http://transphoto.ru/photo/555531/

Second entrance to Marina Rosha metro station opened in Moscow.

At monday a second entrance of Moscow metro Marina Rosha station was opened.

The station was built in 2008-2010, and was opened on 19 June 2010. It is located in a residential district ​​Marina Rosha. Before residents had to spend time on a trip to the trolleybus from the other stations.
Depth of the station - 60 meters. For the first time in Russia and the world, for the construction of an inclined tunnel was used a slope tunnel boring machine, made by Lovat Inc. This is done to speed up construction.
December 24, 2012 the station was opened on the northern entrance.

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RZD EP20 electric locomotive at test runs

A nice video from test runs of new RZD EP20-002 at Sherbinka. 

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Kolomna tramway LVS-97 №001 was burned today

Sad news from Kolomna: one of two articulated trams LVS-97 #001 was burned today.


Alma-Atinskaya station of Moscow metro: detailed description

The new Alma-Atinskaya subway station opened in Moscow. IIt is located in the residential district Brateyevo which is built up with multi-storey buildings in the period of 1996-2000, his height are 14-22 floors. Now all houses are achievable by foot from Alma-Atinskaya or Borisovo station, and housing cost has to increase in them.



Saturday, December 22, 2012

Vintage soviet van ErAZ-762 in Moscow.

A rare find in Moscow. Soviet van ErAZ-762 in good condition.


These vehicles gathered in Yerevan from 1960's to early 1990's, with no changes in appearance and design.

In Soviet times, these vans were used to transport goods in the shops.

Because of the poor build quality of these machines quickly rotted and fell into disrepair, so now it is a rarity in Moscow, especially the car in such good form as this.

It numbers the Voronezh region.




Moscow trolleybus - drver training

Moscow. Driver training trolleybus #0802. A strange place: vehicle of depot #8 in Moskvoreche - network of depot #7.

Moscow trolleybus

Suddenly i found a DV-tape in my cupboard, withch i lost about a year ago. Newsreel with trolleybus traffic in center of Moscow.

Moscow, Ikarus-435 buses

2010-07-25. Moscow. Ikarus-435 articulated buses. This vehicles build in 1997, and was scarpped at 2011.



View from the cab of diesel locomotive with a freight train on the mainline in St. Petersburg. Pedestrians are thinking about, and do not pay attention to the train.


Thursday, December 20, 2012

Moscow metro: Blue Screen of Death

In Moscow metro re-installed advertisiment screens, with bsod



Tulskaya station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death

Friday, December 14, 2012

New EP20 passenger electric locomotive start work on Peterburg - Moscow line.

2012-12-14. Frist EP20 electric locomotive start working with passenger trains by Sankt-Petersburg - Moscow route. This locomotive is dual-system, maximal speed is 200 km/h.


Photos: ЭП20-001
By ER2-1236 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons


Lenght of this line about 850 kilometers. Passenger trains are serviced by locos ChS2T (soon withdrawn), ChS6, ChS200 (high-speed).