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(rshsdepot) A bissel more Minsk
Well, no one asked to be taken off the list, so as the "completist" I am, we will continue the tour of iron and steel and depot Minsk.
Here is a real cool Minsk Metro station, if you can read Cyrillic, you will know which station it is:
http://www.urbanrail.net/eu/min/traktorny-zavod.jpg
I believe this station is Traktornyly Zavod......doesn't this picture look like Batman could be lurking under the platform...
Minsk has 1.7 million inhabitants and is about halfway between Berlin and Moscow...
If you remember or saw Nemiga Minsk Metro station amidst the avalanche of links I sent yesterday, the one I thought resembled Mexcico City stations, when they dug this station, the remains of an ancient city were discovered....
The Mogilyovskaya station, opened September 5, 2001 was the first metro station in the ex-USSR lands to have elevators for the handicapped...(..
The Metro Minsk uses "Russian gauge" (1,524 mm) (what is that in rods, I forget)..425,000 use the Minsk metro, the two lines, a third and some extensions are planned..
Look at this amazing Traktorny station:
http://www.urbanrail.net/eu/min/traktorny-design.jpg
This Minsk Park station recalls the grooved ceilings of very old railroad passenger coaches, rail cars, trolleys, etceteras, look at the upper portion, picture big aimlessly swinging fan blades like on the old SP Peninsula trains...and here the chandeliers echo the button shaped lights, the simple light bulb covers in old passenger cars and coaches....maybe it's just me:
http://www.urbanrail.net/eu/min/minsk-park-chel.jpg ok, the windows are missing, but you get the idea...
Here is the first trolley bus in Minsk:
http://trolibusz.budapest.hu/mtb/19678903.jpg they began running in 1949, retired mid-1960's...they still have trolley buses in Minsk, maybe in Dayton, Ohio too...
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End of RSHSDepot Digest V1 #916
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The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org