Our memory. The power and greatness of the locomotive

Indeed, few museums have such exhibits. Tanks, guns, howitzers, trucks, self-propelled guns are somehow more familiar. Plus, the sizes are also suitable. Meanwhile, not only they won the war. Steam engines were, perhaps, not so noticeable, but, nevertheless, a very significant component of any army.

Moreover, losing the battle due to lack of tanks or guns is likely. But to lose the battle without starting it because of the lack of locomotives is no less logical. For it was with their help that tanks and guns could get from the factory to the front. In some countries the size of a handkerchief, maybe it would be otherwise. But not in ours.

In Brest, opposite the main entrance to the Brest Fortress, there is a small museum. And there ... I would say there is the maximum concentration of horsepower per square meter of museum area. However, judge for yourself.

Entrance to the museum. Neatly so. And immediately after the entrance begins the exhibition.

To begin, we will show all small things, and leave the most delicious for dessert.

Motodrezina TD-5. The tiniest exhibit in the museum's collection.

Motor vehicle AC1A. Self-propelled car for official use.

Narrow-gauge diesel locomotive TU-2. Such diesel locomotives were used on children's railways. This specifically worked in Minsk, and I watched his brother in Baku. Maximum speed - 50 km / h, the power of the diesel 300 l. with.

Snow plow SDPM. 1965 gv, power about 2000 hp

Shunting diesel locomotive TGK-603. 1962 GV Power 240 hp, speed up to 60 km / h. Weight 28 t.

Locomotive M62, 1970 GV, power 2000 hp, speed up to 100 km / h. Weight 116,5 t.

Locomotive 2TE109. Power 3000 hp, speed up to 140 km / h, weight 120 t.

Diesel train DR1. 1969 onwards, speed up to 120 km / h.

Locomotive TEM15. Power 1200 hp, speed up to 100 km / h, weight 120 t.

Actually, not a museum piece, his brothers still plow. And this one is chilling ...

Locomotive TEC. 1968 GV, cargo, two-section. Power 4000 hp, speed up to 100 km / h, weight 252 t.

Now go to the main part.

Locomotive series LV. One of the last Soviet locomotives. Power 1660 hp, speed up to 85 km / h, weight 190 t.

FD20 series locomotive ("Felix Dzerzhinsky"). 1936 gv, power 3100 hp, speed up to 85 km / h, weight 135 t. Produced from 1931 to 1941 years. Honored front-line soldier.

Locomotive TE series. German, which can be seen on a narrow rail track. TE - "Trophy, identical to the series E". Released in 1943 g, power 1400 hp, speed up to 80 km / h, weight 135 t.

The 52 type steam locomotive, or BR 52, was developed in the first half of 1942 as a “military” locomotive. The main task of the designers was to create the cheapest and most technologically advanced and at the same time reliable and easy to maintain locomotive. In this case, the possible duration of operation was allowed to be neglected: the estimated lifetime of the locomotive should have been about 5 years.

In total, during the war, about 2200 of such locomotives, which were operated on the railways in 1940-70, were received by the USSR as trophies and reparations.

Another German, but already converted to our track. Russified.

Steam locomotive PNNUMX. 36 GV The last Soviet main steam locomotive. Power 1956 hp, speed up to 3000 km / h, empty weight 125 t.

Hulk. Wheel diameter 185 cm.

Locomotive series KC-4. "Skoda", 1947 g. Power 200 hp, speed up to 50 km / h, weight 106 t.

Tank locomotive of the 9P series. 1953 onwards, power 320 hp, speed up to 35 km / h, weight 53 t.

Tank - this does not mean that there is a gun. This means no tender with coal. It is replaced by a relatively small box. Shunting engine.

Steam engine PNNUMX "Victory". 32 onwards, power 1946 hp, speed up to 2200 km / h, weight 80 t.

The steam locomotive of the CO series ("Sergo Ordzhonikidze"). 1948 onwards, power 2100 hp, speed up to 70 km / h, weight 130 t.

Locomotive Series Su. 1948 GV Power 1560 hp, speed up to 115 km / h, weight 120 t. Produced from 1924 to 1951. Our "workhorse" of the war years.

Service (headquarters) car with a study.

Covered two-axle freight car 1915 (!). "Teplushka". Also honored member of the front road.

Even with the stove inside.

This incomprehensible structure is a pneumatic coal loader.

Coach.

Steam cock PK6. Miracle of technology!


Year of release - 1956, but this was released before the war. Load capacity 6 tons, boom range from 5 to 10 m.








Here, apparently, missed the word "hands".

I went inside one of the exhibits, after the tour. Everything is complicated and incomprehensible there.

[Center]

[/ Center]

Here is a museum ...

Separately listed all the heroes of war and labor.

In general, there are a lot of impressions from 1500 meters of canvas with exhibits. Power and beauty.

Comments

[zyablik.olga]

Excellent report, well done Belarusians, Some of the exhibits are simply unique, and the TEM15 shunting diesel locomotives and SDPM snow blowers are still working in the Far East.

[Amurets]

Quote: zyablik.olga

An excellent report, well done Belarusians, some good exhibits are unique, and shunting diesel locomotives TEM15 and SDPM snowplows are still working in the Far East.

Yes, Olya! They work. And at the station Blagoveshchensk there is a steam locomotive LV, and at the stations Skovorodino and Belogorsk steam locomotives P-36. Steam locomotives of the P-32 series from January 14, 1947 began to be produced under the name "L" in honor of the chief designer of the Kolomna plant Lebedyansky. .S. Thanks to the Belarusians one hundred have preserved such a large amount of railway equipment and a wonderful museum. And thanks to the author for such a detailed excursion.

[sherp2015]

Quote: zyablik.olga

An excellent report, well done Belarusians, some exhibits are simply unique, and TEM15 shunting diesel locomotives and SDPM snowplows are still working in the Far East.

Great review!
And a small self-propelled yellow cart with a motor from the "Dnepr" or "Ural" and a headlamp in front at the beginning of the article I have always admired with its mobility and speed.
Railway workers wound on it along the highway without any schedule to monitor the condition and, if a train appeared on the way, they stopped quickly, removed it from the rails on their hands, and after passing the train they also quickly put on the track and continued moving

[jjj]

Great stuff. Belarusians on the railway, I speak of the post-war period, there was order. They always had full states both on the way, and on draft. They even took the initiative to downsize. As the railway workers of the RSFSR later complained, they introduced the experience, but did not think that the states in Russia were already cut back. They still had to be cut. A period of decline began on the road. And then perestroika came and everything mixed up.
Of the locomotives presented, for some reason I did not see the main worker of recent years for a couple - L-50. And the diesel locomotive called "TEM-15" is a diesel locomotive with power transmission, it is pulled by electric motors powered by a diesel generator. Hence the smooth pulling away. Such even on suburban lines were put on traction

[Kotyara Fat]

They put it. Rarely, really. The machine for the highway is not sharpened. In the booth, it’s not that there is not even a toilet — there is no washbasin, the diesel operating mode is also shunting. But on small stretches and on non-staff highways, it is quite acceptable.

[Altona]

Quote: jjj

Of the locomotives presented, for some reason I did not see the main worker of recent years for a couple - L-50. And the diesel locomotive called "TEM-15" is a diesel locomotive with power transmission, it is pulled by electric motors powered by a diesel generator. Hence the smooth pulling away. Such even on suburban lines were put on traction

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We also have a steam locomotive in the depot, I don't remember which one. Kanash (Chuvashia) is generally a city of railway workers. One of the key nodes of the Gorky railway. As a child, he studied at the depot, when the CPC was in the 9th grade, they explained the basics of the "assistant driver" - semaphore traffic control, the arrangement of the railway track, the main units of the locomotive and cars. A steam locomotive in general in Russian is a symbol of power and beauty, like a bear. "It buzzes like a locomotive", "puffs like a locomotive", "it won't pull, it's not a locomotive." That is, the locomotive is perceived as a symbol of strength.

[Amurets]

Quote: jjj

For some reason, of the locomotives presented, I did not see the main hard worker of recent years - L-50

If you mean a steam locomotive of the "L" series, then it is presented under a different name: P-32
http://www.150let.rw.by/lokomotivy/l/

[jjj]

Quote: Amurets

it is presented under another name: P-32

As the founder of the series, yes. Although, probably, in Belarus they walked more from the LV series

[Amurets]

Quote: jjj

As the founder of the series, yes. Although, probably, in Belarus they walked more from the LV series

I can’t say anything definite. I live in the Far East, we had locomotives of the EA and EM series in freight traffic. P-36 and Su were running along the main route of the Transsib in passenger traffic. I myself have worked on the railway for 12 years in a locomotive depot.

[Altona]

Quote: Amurets

I can’t say anything definite. I live in the Far East, we had locomotives of the EA and EM series in freight traffic. P-36 and Su were running along the main route of the Transsib in passenger traffic. I myself have worked on the railway for 12 years in a locomotive depot.

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There are still armored trains in the Far East. A practical thing, still in demand.

[Kotyara Fat]

And not only. TEM1-2-3-8- hard worker, like the Czech CME. Plow till now as shunting. Relatively recently, they began to be replaced with new types of TEM118.

[an-sar]

My grandfather went through the whole war and until mid-50 on these engines! Very interesting and informative article.

[kind]

Informative and interesting! Good reporting without politics!

[73bor]

In the comments to the photo I want to fix the estimated life of the engine is not 5 but 50 years! Nice museum!

[Anthony]

It’s 5 years, this is a military option, attack aircraft actively hunted for locomotives, if it worked for a couple of years and didn’t shoot it, it’s already good.

[dmi.pris1]

So that's what you are !! "Iron Felix". Honor and glory who built and worked on this technique ..

[Volga Cossack]

Great reporting !!!! Thank!!!! Been there ....... the exposure is very good, I recommend.

[ArhipenkoAndrey]

There is a similar museum in Novosibirsk and the exhibits are also very impressive.

[andr327]

several illustrations of the Novosibirsk railway museum

[andr327]

Steam locomotive

[andr327]

The fastest diesel locomotive in the world TEP80, in 2003 reached a speed of 271 km / h

[andr327]

There are also samples of other equipment

[parusnik]

An excellent museum .. Thank you .. On the photo .. the inscription on the diesel locomotive .. The children's railway, but they were under the "bad totalitarian regime" ... now they are gone ...

[Mordvin 3]

Quote: parusnik

Now they go and no ...

You are mistaken, there is.

[Kotyara Fat]

And one of them in Donetsk! I really don’t know if it works now or not. It's hard there ...

[Amurets]

Quote: parusnik

An excellent museum .. Thank you .. On the photo .. the inscription on the diesel locomotive .. The children's railway, but they were under the "bad totalitarian regime" ... now they are gone ...

The small children's Trans-Baikal Railway is still operating.
http://www.gzt-sv.ru/2014/06/02/iyunya-nachinaet-rabotu-svobodnenskaya-detskaya.
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The truth is now called Svobodnenskaya Railway.

[SMikhalych]

Quote: parusnik

... now they go and no ...

What distinguishes a sofa marshal from other others?
Laziness, ordinary laziness, based on the fact that the lower ranks will find and bring info
When you are Minsker, then Tyrneta cannot be nailed
Here it is, our railway - http://www.dzd-ussr.ru/towns/minsk/
And so that there is no doubt that it still functions, here is the confirmation - http://domoseda.by/detskaia-zheleznaia-doroga.php
Starting from July 1st, in connection with the denomination, the price will be 3,5 BYR, well, or somewhere around $ 1,75

[Mordvin 3]

Quote: SMikhalych

the price will be 3,5 BYR, well, or somewhere 1,75 $

It’s cheaper here. 45-55 RUB True, the road is small, only 2km.

[KOMA]

In Rostov on Don rolls children
Small North Caucasian Railway behalf of Yu.A. Gagarin
Opened 9 November 1940 of the year
Length: km 3,97 (ring)
Stopping points: 1 station (Victory), 2 platform (Solar, Viti Cherevichkina)
Located in the Park. N. Ostrovsky
Man-made structures: small bridge
Rolling stock: diesel locomotives TU2-152, TU2-173, TU7А-3353, TU10-019, locomotive Гр-185, 8 of the PV40 cars, 3 of the ВП750 car;
previously there were: Kch-4-101 steam locomotive, PAFAWAG wagons, Mug / 2 locomotive
Address: 344029, Russia, Rostov-on-Don, Sholokhov Avenue, 29, N. Ostrovsky Park, Solnechnaya Station
Tel: + 7 [phone], 51-27-04
They even pushed the Lexus up

[grandson of the hero]

Thank! Very nice report.
My father worked all his life on the railroad. He started as a stoker. Almost two decades as a driver. When I retired, I cried in a voice - I can’t live without a road. Therefore, in management (superiors) refused to go, albeit with higher education.
Well, my childhood passed near the locomotive depot. Father showed a lot, explained. Itself could start, become on the hitch.
Oh !!!

[Aleksander]

When I retired, I cried in a voice - I can’t live without a road

Yes, the railway drags on, this is a separate world, a separate state with its "citizens" and even troops: once there, no one ever leaves there voluntarily ...
My mother in the labor market indicated one single place of work for 40 years: OCD-attachment for life ...

[AlNikolaich]

Recently, the population of trains has greatly decreased. They started to scrap ... But still, stayed! A fair number of cars are in various depots for conservation, and are waiting for their time ... Of course, God forbid! Steam engines are mothballed in case of war and the big fox ...

[bubalik]

,,, I don’t remember exactly where, in the zero when I went on business trips to Tyumen, passing on the railway (or in the region of Chelyaba or Ekat) , there’s a whole park, there’s probably a hundred of them there, probably, a state reserve

[avt]

Quote: bubalik

,,, probably state reserve

He is . Somehow on Belorussky on the tracks a couple of times the train was seen under a steam train, either they shot a movie, or a retro-train. But a sight Inspires!

[grandson of the hero]

In Vitebsk and Orsha, they are definitely standing right now. And the service periodically pass. The capabilities of the BP have not been canceled by anyone.

[UVB]

Thousand post-war steam locomotive of Lugansk, November 1949

[surrozh]

There is a children's railway in the city of Svobodny, Amur Region, and it seems to be the longest in the world. Monuments-locomotives stand at many railway stations, and most recently, the steam engine gave steam to the military bath and laundry plant in a large military training unit (they have now dispersed everything under an agreement with China).

[52]

In Chita, JD also functions.

[Gray 43]

Thanks to the author for the material! I saw a photo with a crane, and I remembered that the same worked at our station - the crane operator was often "tipsy", but worked like an ace. Without railway transport, there would be nothing in the Great War, and most importantly, Victory! After all, only the railway workers managed to accomplish the impossible - to evacuate industrial enterprises to the east and transfer fresh formations for a radical change.

[0895055116]

For more museums of this kind - RAIL, AIRCRAFT, CAR, SHIP, and so on! To our great regret, in RUSSIA SUCH MUSEUMS are extremely LITTLE, and they are necessary both as MEMORY and for children to learn to love technology, to understand it, and maybe to learn to DO NEW with it!

[pafegosoff]

It’s a pity there wasn’t a single Lend-Lease one left: they handed everything back, the Americans took it in the port according to the act and cut it for scrap.

[ZAV69]

In Chita, at the plant which for KECh all sorts of drives, grates make steam boilers from American Lendlizovskih steam locomotives are standing. The plant is heated and steam is given to a gluing press.

[Amurets]

Quote: ZAV69

In Chita, at the plant which for KECh all sorts of drives, grates make steam boilers from American Lendlizovskih steam locomotives are standing. The plant is heated and steam is given to a gluing press.

Boilers from steam locomotives in many boiler houses stood and stand, but already as hot water tanks, not steam ones. At least when I was still working, the rejected steam engines tried to be disposed of to the maximum benefit. What could be used was used up to the point that large autogenous parts were cut into blanks for the forge. And there was always a queue behind the boilers.

[Grigorievich]

It was a very interesting report and a good museum. In my childhood I had seen enough of steam locomotives, and I traveled by train with a steam locomotive. It was especially interesting to travel through the tunnels in the Caucasus and not close the window.
But FD has never been a passenger locomotive, but only the most powerful freight locomotive.

[bbss]

Quote: pafegosoff

It is a pity not a single Lend-Lease is left:

You're not right. There are samples in railway museums (Novosibirsk and Moscow).
The photo report for this article contains quite a few errors.

[Amurets]

Why not. Until the mid-1970s in the Far East, on the side branches and suburban traffic, steam locomotives of the Ea and E series were used. Actually, I would not consider them purely Lend-Lease. The E series locomotives were developed in Russia, but were produced in the United States. These steam locomotives were in stock bases until the 2000s, I don’t know now. Here is a link to these locomotives. American-built Russian steam locomotives wore the E series both during the First World War and in subsequent years. In the USA it was called "Russian Decapod". This link is not only about the LEND-LIZ steam locomotives, but also lists the places where they are installed as monuments.
http://www.proza.ru/2010/06/12/380

[Aleksander]

And this is a Russian steam locomotive 1912 of release
Steam locomotive O - Russian freight steam locomotive. Produced from 1912 on 1957 year inclusive .... Engine speed 65 km / h ... Power 1300 hp It is assigned to the St. Petersburg depot TCHR-7, as well as a hundred years ago and is ready for operation.
According to the number of locomotives built (about 11 thousand) and the total duration of the production, the steam locomotive O is absolute record holder in the history of world steam locomotive building
This is how the "bastard" "backward" country of Russia built.

[Amurets]

Quote: Aleksander

Steam locomotive O - Russian freight steam locomotive. It was produced from 1912 to 1957 inclusive .... The structural speed of the engine is 65 km / h ... Power 1300 hp It is assigned to the St. Petersburg depot TCHR-7, as well as a hundred years ago and is ready for operation.

The builders of armored trains were very fond of this series. I read so much about armored trains, mainly Ov and Aude, although other locomotives of these series were mentioned.

[moskowit]

Thanks. Unexpected and useful information. Armored trains have always been interested in weapons and crew. I didn’t think about "cravings". Briefly and succinctly ...

[avia12005]

"Lamb"???

[ando_bor]

Thanks, interestingly, great-grandfather from Belarus, a railwayman, in 1915 he was evacuated to Siberia with his family.

[SMikhalych]

It would seem that, well, a steam locomotive was erected on a pedestal, like a monument ...
And when you go on the road to Moscow or back, you pass the famous Orsha, where the P36, nicknamed "The General", rests on a pedestal. And a little to the side you can see the reserve base, where there is a huge number of steam locomotives. And there is more than one such base in Belarus. Here is a report on the stock base in Krichev - http://www.sb.by/ng/obshchestvo-6/article/na-zapasnom-puti.html.
We, as they say, are peaceful people, but our locomotive is on a reserve track. And it stands not in the form of a heap of scrap metal, but in full "combat" readiness. Life taught ...

[samarin1969]

The country worked on domestic equipment!

Very competent and useful photo gallery with comments. Thanks, come in handy.

[vnord]

I don’t know how now, but before, hundreds of steam locomotives stood in storage near Omsk, an impressive sight.

[Old warrior]

The Great Era.

[Aleksys2]

Thank you, good report.
There is also a museum in St. Petersburg, near the Warsaw station ... There is such an exhibit:

[Amurets]

Quote: Aleksys2

Thank you, good report.
There is also a museum in St. Petersburg, near the Warsaw station ... There is such an exhibit:

Great exhibit. ТМ-3-12 conveyor. In Vladivostok there were ТМ-2-12 and ТМ-1-14. It’s a pity that we cut it, and how much information I got, back in the early 50s of the last century.

[Kotyara Fat]

The article is very good - thanks! Well done Belarusians!

[QWERTY]

Is the SDPM self-propelled? What power is there 2000 hp? About the prohibition of work "in curves" - it's not about hands. It's about turns of tracks, let's say arcs. In curves, the outer rail is slightly higher than the inner one, and the crane apparently has no outriggers. Therefore, when working in a curve, it will be slightly tilted and may tumble.

[Amurets]

Quote: ytsuken

the crane apparently has no outriggers. Therefore, when working in a curve, it will be slightly tilted and may roll.

The cranes of the PK-6 series were already somersaulting well. We didn’t consider it in our depot or emergency if the PK-6 went off the rails. The TsUMZ-15 crane was more stable. Maybe a little off topic but this is also a steam technique.
http://stroy-technics.ru/article/zheleznodorozhnye-krany-opisanie-kharakteristik
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[Prince of Pensions]

It turns out if something happens, could steam locomotives be put into operation on coal? Well, if there would be a lot of them now.

[pilot8878]

The power unit of the engine is a boiler. The stove, that is. Grate, water pipe and damper. Because the old people are standing in stock in warehouses, because there is nothing to break into them. Everything is being repaired in the simplest workshops.

[puffnutiy]

In Moscow there is a good railway transport museum, located at the back of the Riga Station.

[parusnik]

Thank you to everyone who reported on the Children's Railways now existing .. It's just great .. what they are ..

[Aviator_]

In Orenburg there is a children's railway, in the suburbs, too - from the station Rest, Kazan Station.

[Alisher]

Here is http://www.dzd-ussr.ru/towns/index.html a list of existing and former children's railways of the former USSR. I counted 26 operating in Russia, some small, some large. In the suburbs - Kratovskaya Railway, from the station Rest to the station Kratovo Kazan Railway.

[52]

Good article and photo! Thank you!

[jurikberlin]

Thank you! Although I worked on diesel locomotives, I took practice on a steam locomotive.
hellish labor! therefore, I understand what our glorious ancestors had to do.
the work itself is hard, but there were also bombing raids ....

[tor978]

Very interesting article, thanks to the author! Yesterday we went to the mobile exhibition and lecture complex of JSC Russian Railways. The kids really enjoyed it. We also want to take them to the railway museum in Chelyabinsk and ride there on the children's railway.

[Aviator_]

A beautiful museum, was there a few years ago. But in Moscow, at the Kazan station, more recently, on the 16 track, there was the last steam locomotive that worked until the 60's on the Kurovskaya branch. However, when the bosses changed, he was removed.

[Alisher]

From Kazansky railway station there is a retro excursion on a steam train to Kolomna, there is an excursion to the local Kremlin and in the evening on a steam train back. There is a ring where the locomotive can turn around, and it fills up with water. Two modern Aeroexpress cars are attached to it, but sometimes it smells of smoke. On the way the guide tells a lot of interesting things. It was unexpected for me that the locomotive noticeably jerks the cars during acceleration. Engineers who have "crusts" on the steam locomotive are paid extra. Even in the event of a nuclear conflict, the locomotive is practically indestructible, there is no electronics in it, it can work on almost any organic matter (it is clear which is worse) and water.

[Bayonet]

In Rostov-on-Don there is also a “Museum of Railway SKZhD technicians ”. The museum exposition is represented by more than 40 pieces of equipment. Among them are 14 steam locomotives, many of which are pre-war, 2 old passenger saloon cars, 11 freight cars, 7 electric locomotives, 5 diesel locomotives, 4 track cars, 2 cranes on a railway track, 1 electric train, rolling stock that fell into Russian military years in the form of trophies, as well as several units of caterpillar equipment used in the restoration and construction of the railway track. Periodically, retro-train routes are organized around Rostov-on-Don with a stop at the museum with the participation of existing locomotives L, Er, Su.

[Bayonet]

For the sake of fairness, one more machine should be mentioned - a steam locomotive of the "Ea" ("American") series. Such locomotives were supplied from the United States via Lend-Lease in 1944-47. More than 2000 steam locomotives were delivered. Power - 2080 hp, speed - 70 km / h.

[Bayonet]

There is also a children's railway in Rostov-on-Don. The idea of ​​building a children's railway in Rostov-on-Don, the Komsomol members of the city expressed in 1936. In May 1936, a group of Rostov schoolchildren took part in a meeting of young builders of children’s railroads, which was chaired by Academician Obraztsov. The decision of Rostovites was approved by the Council, and already in 1937, circles of young railway workers began to work in Rostov. But the preparation of the DZhD project and the settlement of all kinds of formalities took several years. Only on August 4, 1940, on the Day of the Railway Worker, at a gala rally, the construction of the Rostov Railway was announced. The horn of the YuP-305 steam locomotive, by then already delivered to the place of the future road, announced the event.
Small North Caucasian Railway behalf of Yu.A. Gagarin
Opened 9 November 1940 of the year
Length: km 3,97 (ring)
Stopping points: 1 station (Victory), 2 platform (Solar, Viti Cherevichkina)
Located in the Park. N. Ostrovsky
Man-made structures: small bridge
Rolling stock: diesel locomotives TU2-152, TU2-173, TU7А-3353, TU10-019, locomotive Гр-185, 8 of the PV40 cars, 3 of the ВП750 car;
previously there were: steam locomotive Kch-4-101, PAFAWAG wagons, Mug / 2 motor train.

[saygon66]

- A wonderful car - a steam locomotive! And transport, and boiler room, and drive for power plants ...
- There was a large museum of steam locomotives in Tashkent, at the North Station ..., next to the Nikolaev workshops - in Soviet times we repaired 26 "M" locomotives a month there ...
- But the head saloon car in the Kaliningrad Museum will be abruptly - with a glass roof!

[Old26]

Novel! Thanks for the photo report. You look at such exhibits of bygone times and sometimes it becomes offensive that we often act according to the principle "What we have, we do not store, when we lose, we cry."

Half a century ago, my father served in the Poltava region. Grandma and grandfather in the south (Stavropol). We traveled almost always by rail. The Stavropol-Caucasian branch (town of Kropotkin) is still not electrified. And then, in the early 60s, only the main lines were EMNIP on electricity. And on such "dead-end" lines there were steam locomotives. Only closer to the mid-60s they were replaced by TE3. And at the entrance to Kavkazskaya from Stavropol was, as I now understand, a storage base. How many hundreds of steam locomotives and what brands there were - HZ. Now we have to travel mainly by motor transport, in the area of ​​this base for many decades KhZ has not been. There is hardly anything left. And what is difficult to make such a museum?

Alas, this applies not only to steam locomotives. On the territory of the flight school we had a Yak-28 and a TU-128. Unique exhibits, but alas - disposed of. At one time in our city there lived a guy who published the magazine "Lokotrans". Even for me, far from the "road", it was interesting to read it. And when, in agreement with the management of the road, a retro train from a steam locomotive and 2-3 carriages arrived in the city, it was impossible to get on it. After 15 kilometers on it drove with her daughter, she had enough impressions for several weeks. I told everyone how I went to "A REAL STEAM TRUCK"
And in general, I don’t know how others do, but I have always associated these machines with POWER. Diesel locomotives and electric locomotives in their background looked pale, although with your mind you understand that they are ahead in terms of characteristics.

[Mzn41]

Beauty!
Thank you

[philosopher]

Dear lovers of railway equipment!
I invite all of you after our Victory to come to Donetsk and see our museum and our locomotives (unfortunately, only those that can be preserved at that time). I don't know much about this type of transport, but we had a steam locomotive, the upper edge of the wheel of which I could not reach even with my raised hand, with the normal growth of an adult. We had cars produced before the Great Patriotic War. We had exhibits amazing and rare, for example, a wooden table dispatcher clock with 24 (from 00 to 24 hours) dial divisions. And one steam locomotive of the "LV" series was ferried to us from Sverdlovsk. Oh, how much we had ... God forbid that more would be preserved after this war.
Therefore, after the Victory, I invite you to Donetsk. I clarify: Donetsk is not the one in the Russian Federation, but in our Donetsk, in the Donetsk People’s Republic.