jamesontheroad
OBS Chief
From "English Russia", a blog that chronicles all things weird and wonderful from Russia and the former Soviet states, here's a post packed juciy full of some stunning railway photographs from Russia:
http://englishrussia.com/?p=2081
Wikipedia explains:
http://englishrussia.com/?p=2081
Wikipedia explains:
*j* :blink:Russian Railways (Russian: Российские железные дороги, РЖД, Rossiyskie Zheleznye Dorogi, RZhD), is the state-owned railway company of Russia. The company is one of the biggest railway companies in the world with 1.2 million employees and a monopoly within Russia. The total length of track used by the Russian Railways is, at 85,500 kilometres (53,130 mi), one of the largest in the world.
Russian Railways accounts for over 3.6% of Russia's GDP and handles 80% of all passenger transportation and 82% of all freight in Russia. A further 270,000 freight wagons in Russia are privately owned. Almost 1.3 billion passengers and 1.3 billion tons of freight travel via Russian Railways annually. The company owns around 20,000 locomotives, 25,000 passenger wagons and 650,000 freight wagons (although only about 40,000 are currently operable).