Railroad Equipment Museum

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RAILROAD EQUIPMENT MUSEUM situated at 118 Obvodny Canal Embankment, one of the largest railway museums in Europe. It was opened as a branch of the Central Oktyabrskaya Railroad Museum at Varshavsky (Warsaw) Terminal in August 2001. Museum railways are over 1.5 kilometres long. There are 80 examples of railway equipment such as a tank locomotive made at Kolomna Plant in 1897, a unique passenger steam locomotive type S-68, a diesel locomotive designed by Y. M. Gakkel and built in Leningrad in 1924, one of the first DC electric locomotives built in 1931, as well as locomotives and carriages made in the USA, Canada, Germany, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, France, and Hungary. Museum items have been located at Shushary Station since 1991. Old-fashioned steam trains regularly leave the fifth line of Varshavsky Terminal taking tourists to imperial country residences such as Tsarskoe Selo, Pavlovsk, Peterhof, Oranienbaum, and Gatchina.

Reference: Музеи Санкт-Петербурга и Ленинградской области: Справ. СПб., 2002. С. 158.

A. D. Margolis. Gakkel Yakov Modestovich
Obvodny Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 118
Музеи Санкт-Петербурга и Ленинградской области: Справ. СПб., 2002 Oktyabrskaya Railroad Museum
Varshavsky Railway Station