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Russian Railroad
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:57 am
by treespider
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....
RE: Russian Railroad
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:18 am
by treespider
Here is a small sample from the map... The hash marks are 25 miles
RE: Russian Railroad
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:28 am
by treespider
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
RE: Russian Railroad
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:32 am
by treespider
One more modern map...
RE: Russian Railroad
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:44 am
by treespider
The area around Komsomolsk...
BAM
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:18 am
by treespider
RE: BAM
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:46 pm
by Redan
Pardon me, boy? Is this the North Siberian choo-choo?[&:][:D]
RE: BAM
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:14 pm
by 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?
RE: Russian Railroad
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:25 am
by Zorfwaddle
I would bet that the railroad runs to Sovgavan (Sovetskaya Gavan). It used to be a Russian naval base...
George
RE: Russian Railroad
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:28 am
by treespider
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.
RE: Russian Railroad
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:29 am
by Zorfwaddle
Heh heh, I mean back in WITP days....
George
RE: Russian Railroad
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:40 am
by treespider
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.
RE: BAM
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:36 am
by pompack
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 [:'(]
RE: BAM
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:55 am
by bradfordkay
Funny, Knoxville is just downriver from Chattanooga... You'd think that a Vol who's a history buff would know about that song!
RE: BAM
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:34 pm
by treespider
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 ....