Unique video by Swedish railfan Olof Nevenius, in May 1987 he was in Soviet Union, he started his way from Moscow to Irkutsk by passenger train "Baikal" Moscow-Irkutsk and from Irkutsk to Khabarovsk by train "Russia" Moscow-Vladivostok. Here you can see everyday railway life of Transsiberian Railway, real effect of "time machine". At this time, I was not yet born, my father studying in Kirov's Pedagogical University at this time, in June 1987 he will be conscripted to Soviet Strategic Missile Forces (during this time was conscription of students during studying!), he will also go by this railway from Kirov to Zagorsk...
Time codes:
0:12 – 10 May 1987, Moscow, airport
0:58 – View to «Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy» from hotel «Cosmos»
1:38 – inside the bus
2:49 – station Moscow-Yaroslavskaya
3:21 – map of Transsiberian Railway
5:34 – boarding into named express train «Baikal» Moscow-Irkutsk
6:26 – 12 May, 2:30 PM, departure from Moscow
7:39 – passenger DC-electric locos CHS2
7:49 – passenger locos CHS7 and CHS2 in locomotive yard
8:02 – diesel switcher CHME3 with passenger cars
8:16 – fire train (red cars)
8:38 – industrial diesel-hydraulic switcher TGM23
9:11 – CHME3 with ballast train
9:15 – another MOW train
9:38 – end of Moscow, a countryside
10:01 – town Zagorsk (now is Serieyv Posad)
10:35 - Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
10:59 – village Buzhaninovo
11:28 – town Aleksandrov
12:39 – city of Yaroslavl
13:48 – stop in Yaroslavl
14:03 – freight diesel locomotive TE3
14:31 – departure from Yaroslavl
15:31 – cars of named passenger train «Yaroslavl» Yaroslavl-Moscow
15:35 - View to Volga river from dining car
16:47 – town Danilov
17:31 – freight AC-electric locomotive VL80S
17:42 – freight DC-electric locomotive VL11
18:03 – freight DC-electric loco VL10 (left) and AC-electric loco VL80S (right)
18:30 – departure from Danilov
18:45 – snowplough
18:53 – old EMU Srz
19:20 – town Buy, passenger electric AC-locos CHS4t
19:33 – two freight trains, nearest with diesel loco 2TE10L, further train with electric loco VL80S
19:40 – CHME3 switcher with bicycle!
20:15 – morning of 13 May in Kirov region
20:23 – arrival to city of Kirov at 8:00 AM
20:33 – VL80S with freight train
20:45 – commuter EMU ER9
21:08 – MOW railcar
21:15 – inscription by white letters is «USSR is a great railway nation!»
21:22 – VL80S and deadhead unit of diesel loco TE3 with another freight train
21:49 – departure from Kirov
22:08 – most likely it’s a station Balezino, DC-electric passenger locos CHS2
22:31 – locomotive yard
22:55 – inside the dining car
23:25 – a countryside
23:34 – MOW base
23:46 – switcher TEM2 (evolution of ALCO RSD-1)
23:50 – breakdown train
24:06 – DC-electric locomotive VL11 with freight train
24:22 – Kama river
24:43 – railcar AS1A
24:49 – diesel loco TE3 with MOW train
24:59 – Perm locomotive yard
25:35 – stop in Perm, commuter EMU ER1
26:35 – departure from Perm, trams
28:33 – station Shalya, 1668 kilometers from Moscow
30:07 - TEM2 with rubble train
30:15 – two old DC-electric locos VL22M
30:46 – 1776 kilometers from Moscow near the station Vershina
31:30 – station Vershina, border between Europe and Asia in Ural mountains
31:49 – dining car
31:54 –Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg now)
34:09 – 14 May, 10:00 AM by Moscow time, city of Omsk
35:29 – water filling of passenger car
35:46 – passenger train Omsk-Semipalatinsk
35:56 – named passenger train «Irtysh» Moscow-Omsk
36:13 – Siberian steppe
36:26 – scrapped locos
36:34 – station Tatarskaya, diesel locos TEM2 and TE3
36:52 – passenger diesel loco TEP60
37:03 – named EMU «Irtysh’s Dawns»
38:12 – station Chany, inscription at station building is «We will make decisions of 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union»
38:40 – passenger electric locos CHS2 at Barabinsk locomotive yard
39:07 – arrival to Barabinsk
39:38 – prison’s truck
39:47 – dining car
40:12 - 8:00 PM by Moscow time (midnight by local time), city of Novosibirsk
41:03 – named passenger train «Sibiryak» Novosibirsk-Moscow
41:12 – morning of 15 May
42:08 – AC-electric passenger/freight loco VL60 with train Baikal
42:20 – electric loco VL80R with train for MOW workers in Krasnoyarsk
42:53 – TEM2 with MOW train
43:17 – MOW railcars
43:30 – railcar for maintenance of gantries
43:44 – station Krasnoyarsk
45:02 – laboratory car for diagnostics of power wires
45:09 – Yenisey river
45:58 – diesel loco TE3 at MOW base
46:24 – suburban village
46:38 – TEM2 with MOW train
47:00 – AC-electric loco VL60
47:45 – station Zaozernaya
49:04 – agitation train «We will bring to life the decisions of 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union» (very funny fact – this train is in livery of modern Russian flag and similar with livery of named train «Russia» Moscow-Vladivostok)
49:45 – station Kansk-Yeniseyskiy
50:21 – Kan river
50:40 – lot of AC-electric passenger/freight locomotives VL60 (and some VL80) at Ilanskaya locomotive yard
51:34 – baggage and postal cars of passenger train with VL60
51:43 – snowpolugh
52:09 – «Reserve base» - in USSR lot of steam locos were mothballed for possible WWIII or other emergency situations
52:38 – station Reshoty
52:53 – flood after snow melting
53:46 – VL60 with passenger train at station Tayshet (largest classification yard in Eastern Siberia)
54:22 – TEM2 with MOW train
54:35 - Jordan Spreader
54:43 – switcher TEM2U
54:55 – old passenger cars
55:22 – dining car
55:57 – morning of 16 May, autocars with small SUVs LuAZ-967 near Irkutsk
56:27 - 8:30 AM by local time, crawler agricultural harvesters «Yenisey»
57:12 – debarkation in Irkutsk
58:22 – bridge over Angara river in Irkutsk
58:49 – view to station Irkutsk-Passazhirskiy from another shore of Angara river
59:02 – 18 May, boarding to bus near the hotel «Inturist»
59:16 – station Irkutsk-Passazhirskiy
59:53 – departure to Khabarovsk
1:00:32 – mountains
1:01:19 – lake Baikal (too bad it’s a night!)
1:01:57 – morning of 19 May, somewhere in Buryatia
1:03:52 – tracklaying train
1:04:12 – working steam locomotive!
1:04:16 – preserved passenger steam loco Su in Ulan-Ude
1:04:52 – VL60 and VL80 locos
1:05:13 – «Reserve base»
1:06:10 – boiler for heating of drinking water
1:07:03 - another «Reserve base», lot of American-built steam locos
1:08:25 – arrival to Chita
1:08:41 – a countryside
1:09:08 – Ingoda river
1:10:10 – ballast train
1:10:58 – station Karymskaya
1:12:23 – 6305 kilometers from Moscow near the station Tarskaya
1:12:51 – dining car
1:13:16 – station Shilka, end of electrification
1:13:48 – passenger train «Russia» Moscow-Vladivostok
1:14:14 – departure from Shilka with diesel locomotive 2M62
1:15:03 – Nercha river
1:15:34 – diesel loco M62
1:16:14 – diesel loco 2TE10V with refrigerator train
1:17:03 – diesel locos 2TE10V with freight trains
1:17:54 - diesel locos 2TE10V and 2TE10L
1:18:47 – 20 May, station Nyukzha, already here a electrification
1:19:35 – «Bon Voyage!»
1:19:54 – railway guard
1:20:13 – station Tygda
1:20:35 – station Ushumun, inscription «Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union»
1:21:12 - «Reserve base»
1:21:32 – passenger steam loco P36
1:22:19 – 7843 kilometers from Moscow, near the station Seryshevo
1:22:42 – Zeya river
1:22:53 – town Belogorsk, lot of Soviet Army personnel at passenger platform, here were lot of military units, because it’s not far to Chinese border
1:24:02 – 21 May, Amur river
1:24:11 – 8517 kilometers from Moscow
1:24:13 – arrival to Khabarovsk, 7:35 AM by local time
1:25:16 – 23 May, departure from Khabarovsk to Moscow by plane
1:25:50 – Moscow, after 8 hours
1:26:01 – view to station Moscow-Kievskaya
1:27:05 – Moscow subway
I traveled by Transsiberian Railway, but only between Moscow and Ulan-Ude, you can ask your questions. Enjoy the watching!
Time codes:
0:12 – 10 May 1987, Moscow, airport
0:58 – View to «Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy» from hotel «Cosmos»
1:38 – inside the bus
2:49 – station Moscow-Yaroslavskaya
3:21 – map of Transsiberian Railway
5:34 – boarding into named express train «Baikal» Moscow-Irkutsk
6:26 – 12 May, 2:30 PM, departure from Moscow
7:39 – passenger DC-electric locos CHS2
7:49 – passenger locos CHS7 and CHS2 in locomotive yard
8:02 – diesel switcher CHME3 with passenger cars
8:16 – fire train (red cars)
8:38 – industrial diesel-hydraulic switcher TGM23
9:11 – CHME3 with ballast train
9:15 – another MOW train
9:38 – end of Moscow, a countryside
10:01 – town Zagorsk (now is Serieyv Posad)
10:35 - Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
10:59 – village Buzhaninovo
11:28 – town Aleksandrov
12:39 – city of Yaroslavl
13:48 – stop in Yaroslavl
14:03 – freight diesel locomotive TE3
14:31 – departure from Yaroslavl
15:31 – cars of named passenger train «Yaroslavl» Yaroslavl-Moscow
15:35 - View to Volga river from dining car
16:47 – town Danilov
17:31 – freight AC-electric locomotive VL80S
17:42 – freight DC-electric locomotive VL11
18:03 – freight DC-electric loco VL10 (left) and AC-electric loco VL80S (right)
18:30 – departure from Danilov
18:45 – snowplough
18:53 – old EMU Srz
19:20 – town Buy, passenger electric AC-locos CHS4t
19:33 – two freight trains, nearest with diesel loco 2TE10L, further train with electric loco VL80S
19:40 – CHME3 switcher with bicycle!
20:15 – morning of 13 May in Kirov region
20:23 – arrival to city of Kirov at 8:00 AM
20:33 – VL80S with freight train
20:45 – commuter EMU ER9
21:08 – MOW railcar
21:15 – inscription by white letters is «USSR is a great railway nation!»
21:22 – VL80S and deadhead unit of diesel loco TE3 with another freight train
21:49 – departure from Kirov
22:08 – most likely it’s a station Balezino, DC-electric passenger locos CHS2
22:31 – locomotive yard
22:55 – inside the dining car
23:25 – a countryside
23:34 – MOW base
23:46 – switcher TEM2 (evolution of ALCO RSD-1)
23:50 – breakdown train
24:06 – DC-electric locomotive VL11 with freight train
24:22 – Kama river
24:43 – railcar AS1A
24:49 – diesel loco TE3 with MOW train
24:59 – Perm locomotive yard
25:35 – stop in Perm, commuter EMU ER1
26:35 – departure from Perm, trams
28:33 – station Shalya, 1668 kilometers from Moscow
30:07 - TEM2 with rubble train
30:15 – two old DC-electric locos VL22M
30:46 – 1776 kilometers from Moscow near the station Vershina
31:30 – station Vershina, border between Europe and Asia in Ural mountains
31:49 – dining car
31:54 –Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg now)
34:09 – 14 May, 10:00 AM by Moscow time, city of Omsk
35:29 – water filling of passenger car
35:46 – passenger train Omsk-Semipalatinsk
35:56 – named passenger train «Irtysh» Moscow-Omsk
36:13 – Siberian steppe
36:26 – scrapped locos
36:34 – station Tatarskaya, diesel locos TEM2 and TE3
36:52 – passenger diesel loco TEP60
37:03 – named EMU «Irtysh’s Dawns»
38:12 – station Chany, inscription at station building is «We will make decisions of 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union»
38:40 – passenger electric locos CHS2 at Barabinsk locomotive yard
39:07 – arrival to Barabinsk
39:38 – prison’s truck
39:47 – dining car
40:12 - 8:00 PM by Moscow time (midnight by local time), city of Novosibirsk
41:03 – named passenger train «Sibiryak» Novosibirsk-Moscow
41:12 – morning of 15 May
42:08 – AC-electric passenger/freight loco VL60 with train Baikal
42:20 – electric loco VL80R with train for MOW workers in Krasnoyarsk
42:53 – TEM2 with MOW train
43:17 – MOW railcars
43:30 – railcar for maintenance of gantries
43:44 – station Krasnoyarsk
45:02 – laboratory car for diagnostics of power wires
45:09 – Yenisey river
45:58 – diesel loco TE3 at MOW base
46:24 – suburban village
46:38 – TEM2 with MOW train
47:00 – AC-electric loco VL60
47:45 – station Zaozernaya
49:04 – agitation train «We will bring to life the decisions of 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union» (very funny fact – this train is in livery of modern Russian flag and similar with livery of named train «Russia» Moscow-Vladivostok)
49:45 – station Kansk-Yeniseyskiy
50:21 – Kan river
50:40 – lot of AC-electric passenger/freight locomotives VL60 (and some VL80) at Ilanskaya locomotive yard
51:34 – baggage and postal cars of passenger train with VL60
51:43 – snowpolugh
52:09 – «Reserve base» - in USSR lot of steam locos were mothballed for possible WWIII or other emergency situations
52:38 – station Reshoty
52:53 – flood after snow melting
53:46 – VL60 with passenger train at station Tayshet (largest classification yard in Eastern Siberia)
54:22 – TEM2 with MOW train
54:35 - Jordan Spreader
54:43 – switcher TEM2U
54:55 – old passenger cars
55:22 – dining car
55:57 – morning of 16 May, autocars with small SUVs LuAZ-967 near Irkutsk
56:27 - 8:30 AM by local time, crawler agricultural harvesters «Yenisey»
57:12 – debarkation in Irkutsk
58:22 – bridge over Angara river in Irkutsk
58:49 – view to station Irkutsk-Passazhirskiy from another shore of Angara river
59:02 – 18 May, boarding to bus near the hotel «Inturist»
59:16 – station Irkutsk-Passazhirskiy
59:53 – departure to Khabarovsk
1:00:32 – mountains
1:01:19 – lake Baikal (too bad it’s a night!)
1:01:57 – morning of 19 May, somewhere in Buryatia
1:03:52 – tracklaying train
1:04:12 – working steam locomotive!
1:04:16 – preserved passenger steam loco Su in Ulan-Ude
1:04:52 – VL60 and VL80 locos
1:05:13 – «Reserve base»
1:06:10 – boiler for heating of drinking water
1:07:03 - another «Reserve base», lot of American-built steam locos
1:08:25 – arrival to Chita
1:08:41 – a countryside
1:09:08 – Ingoda river
1:10:10 – ballast train
1:10:58 – station Karymskaya
1:12:23 – 6305 kilometers from Moscow near the station Tarskaya
1:12:51 – dining car
1:13:16 – station Shilka, end of electrification
1:13:48 – passenger train «Russia» Moscow-Vladivostok
1:14:14 – departure from Shilka with diesel locomotive 2M62
1:15:03 – Nercha river
1:15:34 – diesel loco M62
1:16:14 – diesel loco 2TE10V with refrigerator train
1:17:03 – diesel locos 2TE10V with freight trains
1:17:54 - diesel locos 2TE10V and 2TE10L
1:18:47 – 20 May, station Nyukzha, already here a electrification
1:19:35 – «Bon Voyage!»
1:19:54 – railway guard
1:20:13 – station Tygda
1:20:35 – station Ushumun, inscription «Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union»
1:21:12 - «Reserve base»
1:21:32 – passenger steam loco P36
1:22:19 – 7843 kilometers from Moscow, near the station Seryshevo
1:22:42 – Zeya river
1:22:53 – town Belogorsk, lot of Soviet Army personnel at passenger platform, here were lot of military units, because it’s not far to Chinese border
1:24:02 – 21 May, Amur river
1:24:11 – 8517 kilometers from Moscow
1:24:13 – arrival to Khabarovsk, 7:35 AM by local time
1:25:16 – 23 May, departure from Khabarovsk to Moscow by plane
1:25:50 – Moscow, after 8 hours
1:26:01 – view to station Moscow-Kievskaya
1:27:05 – Moscow subway
I traveled by Transsiberian Railway, but only between Moscow and Ulan-Ude, you can ask your questions. Enjoy the watching!