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The steam locomotive Su 252-94 (Су252-94), initially numbered 3698, was completed at the Andrei Zhdanov Krasnoye Sormovo Factory in June 1950. From 1950 to 1959, the locomotive operated at the Taiga and Barnaul depot of the Tomsk railway, then it was transported to the Kirov depot, and since 1962, when it became an oil-fired loco, […]

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The steam locomotive L-1646 (Л-1646) was constructed at the Kolomna Locomotive Works in 1951, transported to the Yegorshino depot at Sverdlovsk Railways and from there to Nadezhdinsk. In 1953, the locomotive was transported to Siberia, where it operated at the Krasnoyarsk and the Bogotol depot. In 1961, it was included in the strategic reserve of […]

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The driving car 2303 of the electric multiple unit ER1 with the original number ЭР1-609 was built in Latvia at the Riga car-building plant in 1958 for the electric train ЭР1-06 that was delivered to the Severnaya Railway of Moscow. Later, the original train set was rearranged and its cars were distributed to various depots. […]

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The TEP60-0924 (ТЭП60-0924) diesel-electric passenger locomotive was completed at the V. Kuibyshev diesel locomotive plant in Kolomna (КТСЗ) on February 29, 1980 and delivered to the Zasulauks depot of the Baltic railway on March 10 of the same year. The Zasulauks locomotives hauled heavyweight passenger and express trains on the Riga-Tallinn, Riga-Vilnius-Minsk, Riga-Volokolamsk(-Moscow) and Riga-Zdolbuniv(-Lviv) […]

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The diesel-electric locomotive VME1-116 (ВМЭ1-116) was produced in Hungary in 1961 at the Ganz-MAVAG Works for the Soviet railways and delivered to the Latvian Ventspils depot. In March 1971, the VME1-116 was sent to Tallinn, where it operated as a shunting locomotive at the Tallinn and Ülemiste stations and port for over 20 years, the […]

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For nearly a century of train traffic in Haapsalu, they have had relatively few accidents. Of those lone incidents, one of the most memorable was on 29 July 1926 at about 3.45 p.m. to a train that shunted straight to the sea. The steam locomotive Ov 155 (built in 1903 at the Nevsky factory, formerly […]

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A railway that would lead to the Haapsalu resort was first planned at the beginning of the 1870s. The Baltic Railway Association opened the first railroads in Estonia in 1870 and considered establishing a Kolga-Haapsalu or Keila-Haapsalu line alongside the Tapa-Tartu railway. This plan, unfortunately, was dropped due to the lack of resources, but the […]

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