[PRCo] Re: Moscow, Odessa and Kiev

[Herb Brannon]

Good items. I noticed the Moscow subway runs the same type car as the St
Petersburg subway. The Russian equipment has that
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 14:20, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> Unlike Peter, if Fred does a travelogue, I would try to include something
> of the city itself in addition to the railways...
> Let's look at Moscow.   This might be as good as it gets for a free on-line
> video of the city.   Not as grim and forbidding as it was two or more
> decades ago when they feared us and we feared them.   By the way, remember
> that Germany invaded the Soviet Union in World War II.   They lost almost 24
> million people in that war or 14.2% of their population ... perhaps the
> second largest share of any nation.   They came out of it fearing a lot of
> people.  (We lost about one tenth of one percent.)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTWDY7zwTbw
>
> Running transit in Moscow is like trying to deal with it in a place like
> Phoenix with extreme population growth except that the automobiles didn't
> arrive in 1925; it was about 1990 before they flooded in.   The Moscow
> population was only about 2.5 million in 1930 when they built the first
> subway.  It was around 4 million in 1940.   Today?   Closing in on 11
> million.
>
> The Moscow Subways haul seven million riders a day!   The tramways in
> Moscow are not the primary way of getting around ... they are in the suburbs
> connecting to the subway.   So let's first look at the Metro or subway.
> Under the Soviets, the subway stations were some of the most artistic in the
> world and still are:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gTUKjTIeSg
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i2JnwvUJQo&feature=relmfu
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgiFJysMx4c
>
> Trams of Moscow, Russia 2009 (TÒÁÍ×ÁÉ íÏÓË×Ù 2009)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcxSURCPUng
>
>
> More Trams in Moscow, Russia 2009
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwV9GFb_owo&feature=related
>
>
> New russian tram KTM-30 in Moscow. îÏ×ÙÊ ÔÒÁÍ×ÁÊ ëôí-30.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1N4FCKnaWo&feature=related
>
>
> Ghost Trams of Russia - Around minute 6 - I would swear I've been there.
> It looks not like
> Russia but rather downtown Warsaw, Poland.   Those are Konstal built PCCs.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLrytOZOh8o
>
> How about Odessa in the Ukraine on the Black Sea
>
> This is cute ... kid hitching ride on the back of tram until he realizes he
> is being photographed
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQV9uiRju0Q&feature=related
>
> You've seen kids run up and wash your windshield at a traffic light ....
> check out these kids running up and washing the tram in Odessa.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oa5N-W7BFU&NR=1
>
> Or Kiev in the Ukraine ... just a tiny city of about 2.5 million people.
>  In population it falls between Houston and Chicago.   Little place.
>
> First three subway / metro videos
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBJqWWvZEHc&NR=1
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuTc_VI1mcM&feature=related
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my-2eLihTwY&feature=related
>
> Then three tram videos in Kiev, starting with a nice long view of a cracked
> windshield on a PCC    Must have hit a high speed bird!   <:)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKDazrDj9mI
>
> We can title the next one, "Be a little late for dinner, Dear."
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdGuSdOmmv8&feature=related
>
> Some nice aerials of Kiev trams but turn down the sound
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HOJgLF0qSY
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-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park