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The former Warsaw Train Station(Varshavsky Vokzal [Варшавский вокзал] - Sankt Peterburg) |
In August of 2001 exhibits for this new museum were taken from Shooshary (Shushary) museum and from the base of Central railroads museum (CMZht). In fact, the whole museum of October railway was moved to Varshavsky Vokzal from Shooshary, where the open-air museum of the Oktiabrskaya railroad had its exhibition in the southern outskirts of the city.
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Some of the exhibits at the Varshavsky (Oktyabrskaya) Railway Museum; several by Andrey Malcev |
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TE3-1001, a 2 x 2000 hp diesel freight loco built by the Kolomna Works in 1956. Employed on the North Caucasus Railway and received at the Shushary railway museum from the Krasnodar depot in 1996. |
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2-10-2 Steam locomotive FD; named after Felix Dzherzhinsky. These were the USSR's most powerful freight locos of which over 3000 were made 1932-41. FD 20-1103 seen here was built by the works at Vorosilovgrad. |
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M62-1, a prototype 2000 hp Electric freight loco. Built by the Lugansk Locomotive Works in 1964 and spent much of its life painted blue and working in the South Eastern, Central Asian and October railways. |
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Another FD view, of 20-1477 |
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Electric cargo loco VL60k-065 was built by the Novocherkassk Electric-locomotive Building works in 1960. Its territory spread over the Krasnoiarsk, East Siberian, Northern and Gorki railways before being presented to the Shushary museum in 1997. |
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TEI-20-135 Diesel Freight or Passenger loco of USA design. Approx. 300 of this class were built in Khar'kov 1947-50 | |
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Number 14 of the freight/cargo electric Ss class. Built in 1933 for the Suram Pass section of the Trans-Caucasus Railway in Georgia. These were the first type of mainline electric locomotives in the Soviet Union. |
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A semi-streamlined 4-8-4 number P36-0251. This is from the last class of steam locomotives known as "Pobeda" (Victory)" to be built in the USSR, in 1956. |
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Diesel power unit Ge-001 (aka Ge-1 and ShChel-1), the first Soviet diesel locomotive | ![]() |
A Russian Prairie 2-6-2 S-68, S-68 was withdrawn from service in 1960 and is the sole survivor of this class. It was initially restored as S-245 by the ORK depot in Moscow. |
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Electric Shunting locomotive VL41-060. This is one of a class of 78 which were built at the Dnepropetrovsk in the Ukraine 1963-64. It came to the museum from the North Caucasus Railway. |
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A powerful looking 2-10-0 number L-2298 with a cameo of Mssrs. Stalin and Lenin on the smokebox door. |
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Diesel Freight locomotive TE2-414, built by Khar'kov Diesel-locomotive Works in 1954. It worked on the West Kazakhstan and October Railways whilst in service, arriving with the museum in 1990. |
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Oil fired, freight steam loco SO17-2413, was built by the Krasnoiarsk Steam-locomotive Works in 1948. It was used on the Perm and October railways and was given to the museum in 1992 by the loco depot at Malaya Vishera. |
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Fk-07, one of 50 similar class F electric built for the USSR by French companies in 1959. They were modified in the 1970s and reclassified as 'Fk's after having their mercury-arc rectifiers replace with a silicon type. This loco worked the Krasnoiarsk until 1987. |
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Freight Steam locomotive Tk3 1105, was built by Locomo in Tampere (Finland) in 1943 for the Finnish Railroad and used there. These 'Trophy' locos were also used by the October Railway during the 1940s and 50s. This engine came from the Finnish Haapamáki museum. |
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D1 719-3, a powered driving coach of a Diesel Multiple Unit. Built in 1984 for the Soviet Railways by the Ganz-Mavag Works in Hungary. |
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This 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive is one of the oldest surviving locos in Russia. Built in 1897 by the Kolomna Works for the Vladikavkaz railway, it was used for shunting up to the mid 1980s at Groznyi. |
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Industrial Diesel Locomotive TGM3-021. Built by the Liudinovo Diesel-locomotive-building Works in 1960. It came to the museum from the Tsarskoe Selo factory for repairing track machinery. |
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Ye-A-2201, was built by 'Baldwin' in 1944 under the Lend-Lease scheme. Initially it was based around Moscow, then from 1955 it worked on the Soviet Far Eastern Railway. |
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Diesel locomotive Da20-09: Built in 1944 by ALCO (American Locomotive Company) in the USA. This loco entered service in 1945 on the Ashkhabad Railway and was later transferred to the North Caucasus Railway, which supplied it to the Shushary museum from service in 1996. |
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Freight steam locomotive Em730-31, built by the 'Red Sormovo' Works in 1934. When withdrawn from service it came from the October Railway's Rzhev depot. Over 13,000 engines of the original class E were built. |
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TEP70-0007: is a relatively modern exhibit, a diesel passenger locomotive, built by the Kolomna Works in 1977. It worked from the Orsha depot of the Belorussian Railway for most of its service life. |
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17-1137 is a freight steam locomotive of the "SO" series ("Sergo Ordzhonikidze"), which were made at the Bryansk factory from 1936 onwards. Ordzhonikidze was a Bolshevik criminal and contemporary of Stalin. |
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ChS2-023: An electric passenger loco built by the Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia for the Soviet railways. It came to the museum from the Barabinsk depot of the West Siberian Railway. |
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TE-6769 is a powerful 2-10-0 steam loco of 1943, which was mainly used for hauling long cargo trains. (German class 52) 2.500 locomotives of this type were commandeered and brought to the USSR after World War II. |
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Diesel Passenger Loco TE7-013: This design was based on the T3 diesel freight class, and was intended for express passenger trains. Around 100 were built at the Kharkov plant from 1957 and they were mainly used on the Moscow to Leningrad or Kiev services. |
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Ov-6640 was built by the Putilov works in 1902. Class 'O' was the main type of freight locomotive in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and about 8000 were built. During WWII this loco was used on armored trains and came to the museum from Kaliningrad. |
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TEP10-163, a Co-Co Diesel Passenger Locomotive built in 1965 at the Khar'kov Transport Machine-building Works. A 3000 hp loco, capable of 140 kph, it worked on the Privolzhskaya and Gorky Railways before coming to the museum. |
Telegraph post: Made in 1870 and used for load-bearing of telegraph, telephone and signal lines for 120 years! It was removed from the area around St. Petersburg's Moscovsky station in 1991. |
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A freight electric locomotive VL22m-1729. Built by the Novocherkassk Electric Loco-building works in 1957. It worked on the Kuibyshev Railway and was withdrawn from service in 1996 when at the Ruzaevka depot. |
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9305: arguably the most unusual engine on display here, is this Industrial Fireless Steam Locomotive. Weighing 36 tonnes when empty, this curiosity was built in 1928 by 'Schwartzkkopf' in Germany. It worked at the Tuapsinsky oil refinery until preservation in 1993. |
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TEP60-0190: A 160 kph diesel passenger loco. Built by the Kolomna works in 1967. Spent its working life locally on the October Railway. |
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Railway Artillery Gun TM-3-12: Calibre of 305 mm, Max Range of 30 km, Firing 2 shots per minute. One of three such guns, built by the Nikolaev Works in 1938 utilizing guns from the withdrawn battleship 'Empress Maria'. |
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ChS200-002 electric passenger loco built for high-speed trains on Moscow-St. Petersburg line. DC 3kV. Max.speed 200 km/h. Weight 156 tonnes. Manufactured in 1979 by Skoda Works, Pilsen in Czechoslovakia. |
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Er750-04: Freight steam locomotive built in 1943. This is one of 22 class Er750 steamers constructed at Kolomna works during 1943/44 with boilers originally intended for Su passenger locos, which had not been completed in 1941 due to the outbreak of the war. |
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Rocket Train! Military Railway Missile complex 15P961 "Molodets" with intercontinental ballistic missile 15Zh61. Each missile carried 10 nuclear warheads. Range = 10100km |
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Freight Steam Loco LV18-002 Built by the Voroshilovgrad Steam-loco Works in 1953and named after the October Revolution. It worked the Moscow-Riazon and Northern railways until 1982. |
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2ES5K-011 is a double-headed ''Ermak'' electric power unit with a central booster section, photographed at Varshavsky during the first week of August 2006 at an Exhibition of New Engineering. |
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2TE25K-0001 is an electric-blue "Peresvet" diesel locomotive built mid 2005 at the Bryansk Works. Is it too soon to say this could be part of the future history at the museum? |
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