The Latvian Railway history museum in Riga

There is a good railway museum in Riga, the capital of Latvia (Latvijas dzelzceļa vēstures muzejā).

http://www.railwaymuseum.lv/index-eng.htm

In your pocket also offers interesting infomation.

http://www.inyourpocket.com/latvia/riga/sightseeing/museums/Latvian-Railway-Museum_11203v

We could see rainbow by chance from the riverside of Daugava.


 

The museum located near the Stone Bridge.

 

DL and SL

 

Mobile crane

 

Former Soviet-build DL

 

DL

 

Snowplow 

 

Elektrichka

 

AnArmored coach (At first it was built for Eastern Chinese Railway!! During WW2 it was given to the USSR Armny)

 

A prisoner coach (it seemed to be built in Stalin era)

 

Type T3 (former German type 52)

 

DL

 

Narrow guage rail-truck

 

 

Tickets

Narrow guage loco

 

If you hava a chance, it is a good place for see and feel Latvian Railway history. They offers good DVD for Banitis.

 

(2013/3/21)

Banitis in Latvia

Why I love 60's music and Railways (especially narrow gauge or abandoned ...)

I love the things which people tend to forget.

60's music such as the Zombies and the Animals are slow and easy to listen.

Narrow gauge and abandoned railways often bring people nostalgic world.

Both of them remind people of memories which people lived more primitively than present.

For example, 'Banitis' is one of the most lovely narrow gauge railway.
The train runs between Gulbenes and Aluksnes in Latvia.
http://www.banitis.lv/eng/index.htm

It went to Baltic sea in the past.

About Banitis (Japanese only)


Traveling there, I listened 60's music :D

The Zombies - She's Not There

(26/Nov/2012)