Question : Russian Railway 1900-1920

[Prof.Witchheimer]

of course, it's imaginable, the Nicholas II had the biggest royal train pool of the world, altogether 4 or 5 trains. The two of them (most modern) were the train with 10 waggons built in Germany 1896-1897 (for the Russia travels, see the waggons on the pic above) and another one with 11 waggons built 1894 also in Germany (especially for Europe, probable exactly the russian version but for the smaller european gauge).

The "chimneys" train was built in Russia indeed. It's like the crushed train, 1851 model, I guess it was built some years later.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

and another nice waggon of the Nicholas' II train, the garage..

[former user]

wow
a simple coach with custom doors
I would have expected a flatcar...

yes, I read that the Romanovs had quite a collection of automobiles
and I aquired a few Yesteryears for that

but their colouring irritates me
I am sure there must be some pictures on the original colours somewhere
does someone know?

[Bako]

Woah, there's some interesting stuff in here. How did I miss this yesterday?

I don't have the slightest clue about colour photos of their automobiles though. It seems my google-fu has failed on the subject as well. All I can find are family photos and pictures of a similar bunch of skulls...

[Prof.Witchheimer]

another nice russian carriage..a church..

[former user]

wow
thx

I knew the picture from  a book, but couldn't find it online

only underlines the importance of railwas in russia

maybe I could use one of my Tsar carriages as substitute....
it seems according to the othodox rite the mass would be held outdoors and the carriage would be the choir - then there would have to be an iconostasis in the vestibule
wonder whether they would have relics with them...

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Transsiberian train, but I have no idea about scale 

[former user]

amazing
this must be some comemmorative minute model
the pic is very interesting
judging by the loco it must be the opening train from 1891 (4-6-0 '4t)
the coaches look extremely interesting
which I had a more detailed picture

funny that the famous transsiberian or the orient express used to be rather short compositions
would you think the finishing car is a dining car or the staff car?
or where would the staff been accomodated? in the front combo?

[Bako]

Judging from the picture I would say the cars are roughly a tad shorter than two inches long each. That egg looks interesting though. It must have a music box in it or something judging from what appears to be a wind-up tab.

[Westfalia Chris]

It´s the famous "Transsiberian Fabergé Egg": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway_%28Faberg%C3%A9_egg%29. The key is for winding up the train.

[former user]

no way!!!?
we should post it in workbench and create an honorific account  "Faberge"

[Bako]

My peasantry shows itself once again for not knowing of flashy, expensive exuberance. It does look rather interesting though.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Judging from the picture I would say the cars are roughly a tad shorter than two inches long each. That egg looks interesting though. It must have a music box in it or something judging from what appears to be a wind-up tab.

what's going on inside it...

[former user]

My peasantry shows itself once again for not knowing of flashy, expensive exuberance. It does look rather interesting though.

now, now batko, not too much modesty

you perhaps remeber the 007 "octopussy", in which the Faberge eggs were a major plot element??
this is how I first got to know about them

[Bako]

now, now batko, not too much modesty

you perhaps remeber the 007 "octopussy", in which the Faberge eggs were a major plot element??
this is how I first got to know about them

Oh crap! You're right. Man, I have not seen that movie in ages. I miss back when this one movie channel on the TV always ran 007 movie marathons, the whole series of films one after the other... Which reminds me. Our video rental place has all of them on dvd too. Wish it was in the form of dvd collections rather than each movie separate. It will cost a small fortune to rent them all and refresh me memory.