Does the Orchestra play Rock and Roll Christmas songs the whole trip?
The landscape I’m sure is great at times. I’m sure one could enjoy this long train ride with a languid beauty.
An engineering marvel in its time
1 million conifers and you have seen them all.
No showers, but there IS vodka!
The picture of the horse carcass on the side of the track made me want to sign up!
I’m not qualified to comment on the artistic or technical quality of the pictures, but they seem to depict a lot of squalor. Sleeping baby was cute.
126 hours? I don’t know about that. I love train travel and the California Zephr (Chicago to San Francisco ) is half that time but I’m ready to get off when we get there. People traveling coach for two days are pretty gamey and uncomfortable. I wouldn’t consider it without a bed and shower on board.
If you like adventure and don’t mind a few chickens on the train... or spend the extra money and don’t travel as a local. That’s what I hear...
It looks Russian, like photos of our Depression era. Kinda depressing, but I’d do it if there was a bar car. However, seeing it is Russia, every car’s probably a bar car!
Just don’t respond if a burly man in a grey suit asks to borrow a match. If you can’t avoid answering, be sure not to say you use a lighter, old man.
In the late 80s, I took that Trans Siberian trip. It was part of a train tour from London to Hong Kong. Needless to say it was a trip of a lifetime!
But the part thru Russia was eye opening. We did stop in cities overnight, but got back on the train to resume the ride thru the small towns and white birch forests, looking at Russia and Russians in fleeting glances, and observing life in the countryside at that time.
I didn’t look at the flick yet, but I just had to respond to the topic and my initial thoughts.
Beautiful pictures. Very noisy website.
Could make good Rubles selling deoderant.
They have a Guarantee: if you do not reach your destination alive you get your money back!
Didn’t bother to go beyond opining page. Half the pictures from inside train.
The trip I took was 1990, not the late 80s as I said in my earlier post. The landscape pictures sure brought back memories. Small towns all alone in the distance, and the forests. There were roads in the middle of nowhere, that crossed the tracks, and there usually was a babushka older woman with a “Stop” sign standing there, and a little stand for her to wait in for trains to come by.
I always kept a menu list of all my meals to China, and this trip included. Rereading it, the meals on the train weren’t bad, and the soups were always good. There was ALWAYS a cucumber and tomato salad and each main dinner plate had a garnish of cuke and tomato. AND every dinner had canned peas. Every dinner! This was mostly a tourist train, so didn’t see the local people travelling as I often did in China.
Thanks for bringing memories back.