Trip Reports

This page presents a collection of various railway-related trip reports, both across Russia and across other countries.

Budogoshch - Weimarn Railway: Photo report by N. Vorobiev about his trip to the dismantled railway Budogoshch - Chudovo - Weimarn: now, the second part is available!
Monza: A story by A. Privalovsky about his trip to the remote Vokhtoga - Ida railway
Around Donbass on Commuter Trains: A story by A. Dmitrievsky about his trip across the Donetsk Coal Region on commuter trains, with train timetables, helpful hints, etc.
Budogoshch - Weimarn Railway: Photo report by N. Vorobiev about his trip to the dismantled railway Budogoshch - Chudovo - Weimarn
Japanese Railways: Japanese Railways as seen by a Russian railway fan: an illustrated trip report by D. Zinoviev
...Railways span across Japan. The are as omnipresent as a crime, and as inevitable as a punishment. They are such an indivisible part of a Japanese landscape as Mount Fuji. In my office, there is a poster showing a Shinkansen train with Mount Fuji in background -- they look as if they were carved of a single piece of stuff! It's hard to believe that Mount Fuji existed before the construction of the railway...
Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad: Museum Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad at Portland, Maine: illustrated trip report.
Ecuadorian Railways: Pictures of Ecuadorian railways, taken by Sergey from Ecuador.
Kama Hydroelectric Plant Electric Locos: Illustrated story by L. Y. Shmyrshtyu.
The Last Narrow-Gauge Railway of the Appalachia: ......
Streetcars and LRTs of New York and Newark: ......
Cuban Diesel Locomotives: Illustrated report by P. Wormald about Cuban diesel locomotives. Some of them have been built in the USSR.
Alaska Railroad: My trip to Anchorage, October 1999...
Site 501: "the Dead Railway": We all remember how 10-15 years ago the whole country was enthusiastically building the Baikal-Amur Railway (BAM). However, just a few of us know that the BAM had a twin -- the Transpolar Railway Chum-Igarka-Salekhard, which had been being built in 1949-1953 and was totally forgotten soon thereafter...