BOB2 Wrote:
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> Where in Russia or the "Republics" does/did the
> peoples "Daylight" run.
>
> The scene of the diesel smoke when it's pulling
> out of the siding is going to make Hutchies day.
>
> I've often wondered if, like in many countries,
> Russia, or any of the former "Republics" of the
> workers paradise, they've done much preservation
> and/or museum/tourist lines (ala OERM, the feuding
> cousins in the Bay area, Rio Vista, the good folks
> up in Inyo County, Roaring Camp, Durango....), and
> are there any "Short Line Sammies and/or IPH's (or
> anywhere along that on that spectrum
> competence)operating any RU shortlines?'s
>
> If there is a source on this, it would be
> interesting... I still have my copies of Janes
> Railways from the early 80's, when the Soviet
> Union was still making Alco RS WWII lend-lease
> (the program to ship war aid like trucks, jeeps,
> even choo-choo's to Russian, Britain, and other
> Allied nations by the US for those who were
> educated after about 1980) Alco "knock-offs", and
> advertising them for export to mostly third world
> RR's.
It appears that there's quite a bit of historic rail preservation behind the former Iron Curtain. I've visited the railway museum in Budapest, which has two turntables, a 30-something stall roundhouse, shop, 50-odd steam locomotives (about a dozen operable), plus lots of diesels, electrics, cars, etc. The appeal of trains is truly universal.