Russian Railroad

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Post by treespider » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:57 am

Recently picked up a map of the Russian Maritime provinces dated 1943. The map portrays the area roughly from Irkutsk to Sakhalin island at 1:4,000,000 or 25 miles=3/8"

Curiously there is a railine reported as being under construction as of 1939 running well to the north of the currently portrayed railline.

On the map I have it is complete to Kirensk-Sibiriski (rougly 425 miles N-NE of Irkutsk) and runs roughly E-SE from this point paralleling the current Trans _Siberian till it reaches the AMUR river at Kosomolsk. The closest it come to the current line is at Tinda which is roughly 100 miles N of Skovorodino.

Anyone know anything about it?

There is also a line following the AMUR from the sea to Komsomolsk reported as under construction in 1939...

Perhaps a trip back to the library is in order to find out if these lines are reported as complete at a later date....

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Post by treespider » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:18 am

Here is a small sample from the map... The hash marks are 25 miles

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Post by treespider » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:28 am

Evidently this track was completed and is now known as the Far Eastern line...here is a modern map of a similar section of my earlier posted photo...

Additional info can be found here -
http://www.transsib.ru/Eng/sitemap.htm

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Post by treespider » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:32 am

One more modern map...

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Post by treespider » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:44 am

The area around Komsomolsk...

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Post by treespider » Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:18 am

The Baikal - Amur mainline...

Its on Wiki...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_Amur_Mainline

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Post by Redan » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:46 pm

Pardon me, boy? Is this the North Siberian choo-choo?[&:][:D]

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Post by treespider » Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:14 pm

ORIGINAL: Redan

Pardon me, boy? Is this the North Siberian choo-choo?[&:][:D]

Boy!? [:-]

Which choo-choo is the North Siberian? Are you refering to the Trans-Siberian?

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Post by Zorfwaddle » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:25 am

I would bet that the railroad runs to Sovgavan (Sovetskaya Gavan). It used to be a Russian naval base...

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Post by treespider » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:28 am

ORIGINAL: Zorfwaddle

I would bet that the railroad runs to Sovgavan (Sovetskaya Gavan). It used to be a Russian naval base...

George

It does. See the image in Post #5 of this thread.

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Post by Zorfwaddle » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:29 am

Heh heh, I mean back in WITP days....

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Post by treespider » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:40 am

ORIGINAL: Zorfwaddle

Heh heh, I mean back in WITP days....

George

It does. The image in post #5 is from a map made in 1943.

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Post by pompack » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:36 am

ORIGINAL: treespider

ORIGINAL: Redan

Pardon me, boy? Is this the North Siberian choo-choo?[&:][:D]

Boy!? [:-]

Which choo-choo is the North Siberian? Are you refering to the Trans-Siberian?

It's a song. [:D]

A very old song; possibly even older than me [:'(]

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Post by bradfordkay » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:55 am

Funny, Knoxville is just downriver from Chattanooga... You'd think that a Vol who's a history buff would know about that song!

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Post by treespider » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:34 pm

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

Funny, Knoxville is just downriver from Chattanooga... You'd think that a Vol who's a history buff would know about that song!

Not a Vol...just happen to live here. I'm familiar with the Chattanooga Choo-Choo ....

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