Thursday, December 27, 2012

New tramway AKSM-62103 in Smolensk

Smolensk received an AKSM-62103 tramway from Belkommunmash, Minsk

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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.