Found this while surfing the net… great photos!
Heh- Uncle Rocky (Rockwell Collins company internet access screening) classifies that site as a pornography site, won’t let me look at it.
Porno for Russian railfans… interesting.[:O]
Just some neat subway tunnel photos Brian. Certainly nothing wrong with them.[%-)]
Yeah, if I have time later tonight I’ll check out the site from home.[:-,]
Outstanding photos. Thanks for sharing. I had no trouble getting in.
It is definitely a subway, because the Russians call their subways Metros, and the word at the top says that. (METPO) My Cyrillic is rather rusty so I couldn’t decipher the word beginning with TOHH—. It may be a town, or it may just say Station. Looks like a major city, though. Moscow would be MOCKBA, so it’s not that.
Note the wide gauge. I assume the Russians are still using 5’6".
I think the Russians are on 5ft, it’s the Spanish and Portuguese (plus some railways in ex colonies in South America) who are on 5ft 6, with the Irish in between at 5 ft 3.
The TOHH-- translates to Tunnel (phonetic) tonnel.
Those are interesting pictures!
Thanks for the photos. I sure like that big green door that appears to swing shut while being supported on curved rails. I wonder what that is all about?
I would guess that it’s for holding back water in case of a flood; I know there are similer precautions on the New York City subway near Ground Zero; where the bathtub-like foundations for the WTC went beneath sea level.
I spent two days in Moscow in 1989 on a tour. A young couple and I went on our own to visit Red Square because that part of the official itinerary had been dropped because to our late arrivals (due to airplane problems). We took the “Metro” from a station near the Cosmos Hotel to Red Square. We had trouble at first because we couldn’t speak Russian well (I knew/know a few phrases) and the silly woman in our group was asking people, in English, on the sidewalk, “Red Square?”.
We fended-off a couple very shady, criminal-looking guys who were only too eager to offer us a ride in their car (I hate to think what their real intentions were), and I finally thought to ask a militiaman (police man), “Lenin?” and motioned in a way asking what direction. I showed him my customs form (more important than your passport that they normally keep locked in the hotel safe), so he could see I was an American (as if he couldn’t already tell). He led us to a map on the Metro entrance and pointed to precisely the right line to take.
We shook hands and we three descended into the subway, and just like the B&W photos I saw from WWII, the subway is way down deep, much deeper than American subways, and certainly was adequate as a bomb shelter at least in WWII.
At least then, the Metro stations we saw were like museums, with beautiful tile murals and meticulously maintained - very clean and easy to find your way around in - even for Americans. We got to Red Square and back just fine, went-through Lenin’s tomb, visited St. Basil’s Cathedral, the big dept. store across from the Kremlin, saw the changing of the guard at the tomb - very interesting.
that is a flood control door. It is a shame that more subways on the US don’t have them. If there had not been one on the PATH line there may have been more damage on 9-11