Transsiberian (Moscow - Vladivostok) HD video (150 hours)

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http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/

Here is the main page for this route.
Google has created the video which is available in short chunks of different durations (up to 1 hour), which can be played in natural order or skipping along using the map. All videos are YouTube-hosted, you can access corresponding playlists by clicking on the video itself.

Hope you enjoy it.

P.S. You should have cookies enabled and Adobe Flash Player installed.
 
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Don't know if I could do 150 hours (!) but a fascinating glimpse of the line built so long ago. Must say I was curious about the start as the train was departing the station area to see so many people walking about beside the track and they didn't all look like railway employees.
 
About half of it or so was electric to Irkursk ? (? = can't be bothered checking the spelling!) but I am right that all of the route is now electric?

And also does anyone know if/where the engines are changed on the route of the trains that travel the full length?

A quiz question:
1. What does the term Trans-Siberian when talking about this refer to? (BTW, no cheating now - especially the admins/mods!) Almost forget might be best if the original poster not answer.

Not sure if the following still applies, but I'll write it as if it is.
2. Not sure if this still stands today, but do you know that this route according to one/several of the Guiness Book of Records that for one (or two) days a week, is not the world's longest train journey.
 
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I'll try and watch the whole 150 hours straight, but if I end up like a zombie towards the end, you'll know who to blame... :hehe:
Cheers, Mac..
 
Red_Rattler said:
About half of it or so was electric to Irkursk ? (? = can't be bothered checking the spelling!)
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Irkutsk

Red_Rattler said:
but I am right that all of the route is now electric?
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Yes, that's correct (that happened in 2002, I believe).

Red_Rattler said:
And also does anyone know if/where the engines are changed on the route of the trains that travel the full length?
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They are changed, of course. Possible stations include (for passenger trains) Taishet and Irkutsk, but the information is very uncertain, so I won't pretend I got the correct ones :)
I think there are at least 4 engine changes during the route.
For freight trains, there was new schedule developed that allows to run the whole line in 7 days instead of 11-12 and it includes 6 stops to change locos/teams/visual control procedures. Each train travels approx 1200 kilometers each day.
 
Well OK red I will give at least one answer. :) I learned this when I was very young. Trans Sibirien means across Sibirien, and yes it is a long ride, or so I am told. No I did not cheat. :) There is a Movie about it now in english and I think it is "Trans Siberian".

Cheers

AJ
 
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