The trans Siberian Railway Part 6

The timetable of Vostok (Train Number 19)

The train arrived at Irkutsk (Иркутск)  on Tuesday evening.

 

Elektrichka (Электричка) type Эл4M waited for passengers.

 

you can enjoy old song about elektrichka!

I bought milk at the kiosk in Irkutsk.

The train run and stopped at Nizhneudinsk (НИЖНЕУДИНСК) midnight.

 

We can see a lot of Soviet-style public housings (Социальное жильёas same as Japanese-Danchi)....

 

Steam locomotive was set as monument in Krasnoyarsk (Wednesday).

 

I got bread and ham at the station.

 

 

(2013/05/23)  

The trans Siberian Railway Part 5

The timetable of Vostok (Train Number 19)

We can see Russian daily life thought the window.

People felt rerax...

Moreover, you recognise the importance about track maintenance.

There were a lot kind of track maintenance cars

 Diesel locomotive 

выдрино (Wydrino between ULAN-UDE and IRKUTSK)

You can get special local food during the journey. For instance, you need to get 'Омул' omul (smoked fish) is one of popular friends of vodka.

  

The train made brief stop at Slyudyanka...Railway station...

I found a Russian beauty (and dog) in Слюдя́нка(Slyudyanka)..But in this time, she was not my target:P 

 People who sold omul (smoked fish) in Слюдя́нка(Slyudyanka), rushed towards the train, once the train arrived. Because the train stopped only a few minutes..

 It was oily but tasty...

Unfortunately, it was not full-smoked, but half-smoked fish.. Therefore, I had got diarrhea....

See also this site, you can get some pictures around Slyudyanka (Russian only)

Japanese pops for Siberian railway (Women's version)

(2013/05/16)  

  





The trans Siberian Railway Part 4

The train runs among Lake Baikal

 

Local stations are passed through.

 

We can often see freight stations.

Some buildings of station are similar design because most of them were built during Soviet-era.

 

We sometimes find joke-paint (Cossacks!)

 

After the collapse of the USSR, re-painting buildings are often seen.

Small kiosks are very useful,

 

Next day, we can see the Lake....

I listened the song of the Spiders : LAND OF THOUSAND DANCES

(2013/05/08)