From "Yandex-photos", then I'll post another portion rare photos from there. For example, here it is. Photo paths Kievsky railway station in Moscow in 1936. Taken from "the very sky", the Photographer climbed up the openwork trusses supporting the glass roof over the station platform and took this memorable shot. I wonder if there are any stairs leading there, or if the author of the photo used climbing equipment.

Diesel locomotive Gakkel GE1 (Shchel1), one of the world's first main diesel locomotives, built in 1924 in Leningrad. And who's on the pedestal? Is it not his designer Yakov Modestovich Gakkel himself? Here, there is a photo where the same person was filmed in the very center of a group of comrades standing in front of a diesel locomotive. Most likely it is he, and the photo was taken in November 1924, immediately after the tests of the diesel locomotive began

Car "Russo-Balt", adapted for movement by rail. Under the tsar, the railway authorities went on such inspection trips.

A group of comrades, shot against the background of C10-12, Surami Italian in the early 30s in Georgia. There is no signature under the picture and we can only guess who they are, these people, and what they have to do with the locomotive standing behind them.

Hungarian diesel train DP (three-car) in Sukhumi, 1950. Photo from the magazine "Spark". I remember how much I was struck by the sight of this train when I first saw it in old newsreel footage from the early 50s. It was filmed in Abkhazia and was driving along the road right along the coast of the Black Sea.

Railway workers in front of the only Soviet passenger electric locomotive PB21. Filmed clearly after the war (judging by the shoulder straps). But where is Georgia or Perm?

Most likely Georgia. Here is a photo of the same people, but against the backdrop of more exotic vegetation than we have in the Urals. The electric locomotive PB21 was sent to Georgia in 1952, so both photos were taken in the early 50s.

And this is Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev himself on the footboard of an electric locomotive of the "F" series. The photo was taken during Khrushchev's visit to France in 1960. The General Secretary decided to personally "accept" the electric locomotives made by Alstom for the USSR. By the way, isn't this electric locomotive the same one that is now in the museum at the Finland Station? That one has the designation Fk07, and this one in the photo is Fp07. But, as we know, the letter "k" appeared in the name of the locomotive only after its modernization in the USSR. So it is quite possible that the only electric locomotive of the F series that has survived in Russia is exactly the one that Khrushchev stepped on.

This photo was most likely taken in the same place and at the same time. Only General de Gaulle is already at the door of the electric locomotive. Unfortunately, the Soviet comrades did not save the electric locomotive, on board of which the foot of the President of France stepped.

Russian railways are one of the most big mysteries of the past. And looking at old historical materials, you begin to understand what scale of falsifications was carried out in their history, as, indeed, in the entire history of tsarist Russia.

The theme of the old railways Russian Empire very interesting, as well as any industrial topic of the 19th century. About the railways in the Russian Empire, even poems were composed about what it was like hard labour. The work there was really hard, with such a volume of work, the degree of mechanization of labor was extremely low.

In the photo, the construction of the Amur railway at 568 versts in 1911. The mound in the background is handmade, which is a colossal amount of work. And you can see the huts that fell asleep debris flow which appears to have been very recent. Builders lived in such huts. The conditions, you know, are very difficult. But in the end, the country received communication lines that gave a powerful impetus to its development. These communication routes were not at all the same as they are now, but at that time it was greatest achievement technology. Well, as historians say, Russian development railways, as always, lagged behind the European one. This is not surprising - the distances are not at all the same and other specifics state structure. And what were those very first ways of communication? From technical solutions, used then, now only the track and wagon facilities remain, and even then not without changes. The traction unit (TC), the encryption unit (SCH), the power supply unit (EC) and other services have fundamentally changed exactly the opposite (railroad workers will understand what these abbreviations are). Have these changes always been driven by technical progress? Let's take a look, and start small - with the water supply systems of steam locomotives.

As you know, a steam locomotive needs water in the same way as fuel. Without it, the steam boiler will not work. And naturally, at each major station there was a point for refueling steam locomotives with water, as, for example, in the photo. Water for such a point was extracted in general according to the standard scheme of water intake - water lifting device - storage device - distribution device. Many old photos of these knots have been preserved. For example, a photo of the non-preserved water-lifting building of the Ob station of the Central Siberian railway (now in that form that does not exist, now it is Novosibirsk-Main), the official publication of the photo album “ great path» dated 1899.

A photo is like a photo, if not for one “but”, namely the same photo, for example, like this.

Obviously, this is the same photo, only smoke is painted on the top of the pipe. What for? If you look closely at the bottom photo, you can see that there is no smoke at all, and even the leaves of the trees above the chimney are visible very well. From the experience of working with such photos, I can definitely say that if the retoucher painted on some detail to another existing detail in the photo, then this existing detail should be looked for a catch. Where could he be? Oddly enough, there is another photo of this place, and it was clearly not taken on the same day as the previous one:

And again something is painted on or inaccurately whitewashed near the top of the pipe. Why did the retoucher need to pay so much attention to this part of the pipe, namely, to artificially show the presence of outgoing smoke? If we argue from the east of the contrary, it turns out that there was no smoke here at all and could not be. But what about water for steam locomotives? It is needed regardless of the season, both in winter and in summer. And in the case of the example with the scale of the Ob station, the volume of water consumed was significant, and even on the way from this water-lifting building to the water collector there were intermediate water-lifting stations, which still remained in places in that area of ​​Novosibirsk.

It is difficult now to say how this system looked geographically. The Ob station has been reconstructed almost completely, cartographic materials about its original form in free access no. Why did you still need to paint on the smoke? The answer is likely to be found in similar photos other water-lifting devices at other stations of that time. Moreover, another interesting photo came across.

This is a view of the water-lifting building of Violem at the Vilno station of the Warsaw railway in 1911. The photo clearly shows that the pipe is sealed with a metal casing and they didn’t even add smoke. And why did the pipe need to be sealed up like that? Most likely, this is not conservation for decommissioning, there simply were no other water lifting systems. It turns out, is it a pipe at all? By the way, a lot of old photos of similar structures from different geographical places have been preserved.

This is the Luga station of the Warsaw railway in 1911.

This is the Kamala station of the Siberian railway in 1910.

This is the Darg-Koh station of the Rostov-Vladikavkaz railway in 1913.

As you can see, it's the same everywhere - no smoke comes out of the chimneys, there are no brackets to lift the stoker onto the chimney. Knowledgeable people confirm that without periodic cleaning of the combustion products on the walls, such pipes will not work for a long time. But a fact is a fact, a chimney sweep cannot climb on top of such a pipe from the outside. It seems strange at first glance, but everything will become clear if these pipes are nothing more than a part of a pump that works using atmospheric electricity. As you understand, no such structures have been preserved anywhere to date. There are many typical drawings of water-lifting buildings on the network. Maybe there is something interesting there? For example, here is such a drawing, but it is difficult to understand whether it is working or executive.

For some reason, the equipment in the building is not indicated, but it doesn’t matter, perhaps the emphasis was on the building itself. A specialist will immediately notice some inconsistencies in logic. Firstly, the chimney of the firebox with a relatively low pipe for some reason goes horizontally below the zero mark. In the absence of a smoke exhauster, the draft of such furnaces will leave much to be desired. Similar designs are used mainly in Ammosov furnaces or in retort furnaces where charcoal is made, and even then not in all. Well, or in cold smoked smokehouses, if anyone has seen it. Secondly, the room for steam boilers (on the left) and pumping equipment (in the center) is somehow strangely located. When organizing the transmission, logically, the pumps should be in parallel line towards the boilers, rather than perpendicularly, to simplify pulley designs. Here it's the other way around. Three places are indicated for boilers and three for pumps. Perhaps they were used in such quantities, if not for another drawing.

Oddly enough, it is in gas plants that retort furnaces are used, and the water-lifting building itself, although without a pipe, looks completely different. Obviously, in the first drawing, an engineer (or not quite an engineer) simply adapted a drawing of a gas plant into a water-lifting building. Everything is really simple there, three furnaces and no transmission. In favor of this conclusion, there is another found drawing.

Boiler experts, take a look and be amazed. What kind of incomprehensibility is drawn instead of boilers, so that there is an insert in the pipe with a mandatory clearance from the pipe material? There can be no open fire in the pipe, and the hot air there is clearly not a destructive factor. But the pipe is drawn according to all the rules, the horizontal part of the chimney is on right level. And no transmission from “boilers” to pumps, and not only transmissions, but even pulleys are not conventionally drawn. The pumps are shown quite realistically, but what kind of cylindrical parts are on them? Very strange. In the receiving well at the ends of the inlet pipes there are some similar elements, but most likely these are just filters. In such a scheme, second pumps are not needed, although everything here also depends on the distance between the well and the building, as well as the diameter of the supply pipe. As you already understood, nothing like this has been standing in Kherson for a long time, even there are no buildings.

Well, actually, this is where the statement of the drawings ended, and the assumptions began. The fact that this is not a steam boiler is already clear to me personally (please, if I am mistaken, object). And most likely, this is a slightly modified fireplace that did not use fuel combustion. More precisely, the liner in the pipe performs the very function of collecting atmospheric electricity, which is sent to a large cylindrical object in place of the boiler. Some kind of energy conversion takes place in it, as a result of which heat is released, which in the form of heated air is removed through the pipe. In one of the photos, there is a grid on the pipe, which indicates that the gas coming out of it has no impurities. But this heat is the usual loss due to energy conversion, the useful component of which is used (or received) by a small cylinder standing on the pump and performing the functions of a pump engine. It turns out a kind of transformer, working according to hitherto completely unknown laws. The pump, judging by the input-output pipes, is drawn quite realistically, it is an ordinary liquid rotary pump of the "snail" type, without any valves. Perhaps the drawing is simplified, and these liners in the pipe go along its entire height, it’s not without reason that all inner part The pipe is divided into three conical sections. For a conventional chimney, this is not necessary at all. Actually, pay attention to the building on the left in the main picture. What's sticking out of the pipe?

It turns out that again, some forces misled us, throwing in standard drawings of buildings and structures of ancient railways. And at the same time painting smoke on the photo where it could not be in principle.

In the last part, we looked at water-lifting structures that were integral part locomotive water supply systems. Well, they found some secrets now lost there. However, the water supply system does not end with water-lifting structures. It has another important node - a reservoir building, commonly referred to as a water tower. Its task is to accumulate water at a certain height in order to supply it by gravity to end consumers (steam locomotives in this case). Remains of those ancient reservoir buildings in large quantities still preserved at many stations of a vast country, in some places even in a well-groomed form. The size of reservoir buildings was determined by the specific water consumption. At large junction stations, reservoir buildings were significantly large sizes than on others, this is quite understandable. At first glance, there is nothing technically complicated here. But this is only at first glance. Let's dive into the material. So, water buildings in old photos.

This is a reservoir building at an unidentified station in the early 20th century. Behind the water-lifting building. Oddly enough, but it is winter outside, and there is no smoke coming out of any chimney. Water tends to freeze, and if pipes freeze in such devices, it will almost be a disaster (those who have dealt with such manifestations will not lie).

Similar photos for other stations. There are obviously chimneys on the towers in the center, but the smoke does not come from any of them. If you want, google, there are a lot of old photos of such structures, but you will not find the smoke coming out of the chimney of the reservoir building anywhere. And what's the fun? Well, judging by the fact that in water-lifting buildings (see. last article) there were some incomprehensible devices with a pipe not intended for smoke, obviously, the secret of reservoir buildings must be sought inside. Let's try.

This is a well-known typical reservoir building, which was molded by the hundreds throughout the country at almost all the stations where there was a need for them. A few small details: the chimney, clearly marked on the drawing, suddenly breaks off and there are no installation places for the firebox; the chimney itself is clearly not one of the walls of the boiler, it is passed through the sleeve and fastened from above with lanyards to the supporting structures of the roof. It is difficult to judge the first detail, perhaps the engineer simplified his work so as not to clutter up the drawing. But on the second question arises. Why was the chimney passed through the sleeve through the boiler? Heat transfer to the water in the tank in this case deteriorates significantly. Let's just assume that in this case the drawing was drawn by a person far from heat engineering, and look at other drawings.

This is the "Album of executive standard drawings of the Moscow District Railway" 1903-1908. It can be seen that more or less competent people were already drawing. The pipes for supplying and taking water into the tanks, as well as the heating device at the bottom in the center, are quite competently drawn. Let's take a closer look.

It is quite logical that the chimney again passes through the sleeve in the boiler without touching the walls. Since there was no welding in those days, the tanks were made on rivets, due to the slightest thermal expansion gaps would form in the details of the tank through which water would begin to flow. For heating water, special circulation pipes were used, connected at the bottom to a conventional fuel boiler. To heat the water in the upper (for example) tank, it was necessary to let water through the melted boiler in the directions indicated by the arrows. Theoretically, water can go like this, if not for one BUT - in order for the water to circulate, it is necessary to make a "suction" from the upper bend. With such a length of pipes and their diameter, it is impossible to make it human lungs. And without this, the water will simply stand, and even if it is heated, there will be just clouds of steam, and no circulation (I have observed something similar more than once, when unfortunate masters did the wrong water heating). It turns out that they drew well, but the trouble is with the principle of action. One more glitch:

This is the same heating boiler, from the same collection. It’s good for everyone, but again a few BUT: the design is riveted, and the water pressure from two tanks is very large; the size of the firebox is such that only one log or a bucket of coal can be thrown into it. According to the first detail, we can say that due to the local heating of the metal, this design is very unreliable in terms of tightness. The slightest gap, and water from the upper riveting rows can penetrate into the furnace and fill the flame. It is very difficult to repair such a defect. It is completely imprudent to hope that the gap will corrode over time, in this case, I know from practice that this does not happen due to constant heating and cooling. According to the second detail, we can say that this boiler is clearly not designed for a large amount of combustible fuel. Judging by the visual width of a two-inch pipe, the firebox was 0.2 m wide, 0.1 m high, and at the same time it was still oval. And the outer diameter of the boiler itself (with wall thickness) was only 1.062 m. Even in urban baths, stoves without heating water around their entire surface were larger and their fireboxes were wider. With such a volume of the building as a reservoir, and the presence of a specific heating element, in addition to air - water, in winter it must be heated continuously and its dimensions must be much larger in order to avoid freezing of the inlet and outlet pipes. There was no constant circulation in these pipes, the water stood in them periodically, so this problem took place this winter. And what happens according to the drawings? Well, at least that the history of domestic industry does not tell us something. As a maximum that all free access archival documents filled with pseudo-historical falsification, born after 1920, and by the time of digitization it turned yellow so that it can no longer be visually distinguished from documents of the 19th century. Sometimes plausible material flashes through the censors' omissions, but this is the exception rather than the rule. And in this case, in the drawings, they slipped us an ordinary wood-burning titanium, which was used in the 20th century until the sunset of the USSR, and in railway barracks in particular. By definition, he could not work in a reservoir building with such dimensions. The reservoir building at Likhobory station is very mysterious. His project was typical, the same buildings were installed at Cherkizovo and Ugreshskaya stations.

Smoke, oddly enough, does not come from the chimney, although it looks like it is snowing. At Ugreshskaya station, the building has been preserved and even restored:

But judging by the through visibility in the windows, the tanks there have been dismantled. In addition, the roof has also been replaced. Most likely, all the secrets of the building were destroyed. There were other water buildings:

This is Uyar station. Surprisingly, the heating pipes also break somewhere in the middle of the building. Let's take a closer look:

Strange, but the chiaroscuro at the top of the pipe suggests that this is not a chimney that goes out, but a single cylindrical piece. There is no ceiling, and there is virtually no attic space. Very strange from the point of view of heat saving. But this is not a mistake, it is not without reason that there is an inscription about laying roofing felt or tarred felt from the bottom of the roofing. And very interesting inscription about a hewn slab in the eaves. What kind of technology is this with such a building size?

The visor sticks out at least half a meter and no connecting seams are visible.

There is no doubt in general (I could be wrong, but I don’t see another) - this is a common reinforced concrete with thick metal ties inside. Chimneys, of course, are no longer there. And a lot of attic windows for ventilation, with different parties building. Very mannered architecture. What was the secret here? It seems that in the drawing it was not without reason that the “chimneys” were cut off in the middle. A wood-burning titanium in their lower part would obviously look like nonsense. Offhand here you can see the usual double dome, and there is nothing more than technological church. Something similar was once described by me. If, following the results of an examination of the cornice and brick details above the windows, metal bonds were found in them, there would be no doubt about what and how it worked here.

Surprisingly, the building has survived quite well. But if you look closely at the roof on the old building and on the new one, you can see that there was some additional cornice above the reinforced concrete, which is now missing. And the material of the roof is already different. The secrets of the building are also destroyed here. But let's turn to the collection "Description of the construction of the Kharkiv-Kherson section" from 1905-1907, on which strange drawings of water-lifting devices were found in the last part.

Hmmm .. And here it turns out that a chimney is not a pipe at all, but a boiler or wood-burning titanium is not at all the same, and even a niche for cleaning the grate is not provided. Everything else is very realistic. Interestingly, there is currently no such tower at Kopani station at all. Maybe the war destroyed it, but there are too many coincidences for her mysterious disappearance. But in general, there are many old photos of reservoir buildings, where a pipe is really captured at the top, and not some kind of cylindrical blank. There is also an interesting drawing on this subject:

As you can see, instead of the boiler there is the same incomprehensible device from which the pipe comes out. And there are no circulation pipes that could fit this device for supplying water for heating. What is this device? It should be noted that all pipes, even the overflow ones, are shown right up to the flanges. Unfortunately, there is not a single photo of the railway reservoir building in Kherson, neither old nor modern, in the public domain. It is very difficult to establish whether they are now at all or not. But it's not yet main question. The main thing is what kind of device is located in them in place of wood-burning titanium? Alas, no photographs of internal structure there are also no water reservoirs of railways in free access. Do you have photos of other buildings? Oddly enough, there is, but not here, but on foreign resources.

What is this wonderful device? If you look closely, it is a stove, but only without a firebox, a blower and grates. And the "pipe" of this furnace goes to the metal connection of the stairs. Actually, compare with the drawings of the reservoir buildings of the Kharkiv-Kherson railway and, as they say, find 10 differences (I see only one thing - here it is cylindrical, and there it is egg-shaped).

See you again. To be continued.

P.S. Do not believe the vast majority of executive drawings of buildings and structures of Russian railways published before 1917. This is a gigantic stuffing of bullshit.

P.P.S. After the release of this material, there were more interesting photos:

Station Lapy Grodno province. — Warsaw railway

Station Grodno - Varshavskaya railway

Station Novoselye, Petersburg Province. — Baltic railway

Station Pskov - Varshavskaya railway

Strugi Belye Station - Pribaltiyskaya Railway

Station Verzhbolovo - Varshavskaya railway

We continue a retrospective display of unusual features at the facilities of the very first Russian railways.

Today's topic will be civil structures of railways (I will write about passenger buildings somehow separately). These were all other buildings, from the railway barracks and street toilets to the buildings of departments and departments of roads. It will probably be interesting for the employees of the NMS (if there is such a service in Russian Railways). The peculiarity of Russia was that it had (and still has) endless expanses. To cover them with a network of railways, colossal expenditures of material resources were needed, including for the construction of buildings for various purposes. In the construction of buildings, as a rule, local building materials were used. There were standard projects buildings for stations of various classes, which were successfully implemented for these purposes. There is nothing surprising in this, as a rule, lumber, wood and stone from nearby quarries were used almost everywhere, which Mother Russia has always been rich in. Of course, for administrative and other similar buildings, construction was carried out according to individual projects and building materials were chosen rather than adapted from local ones. Well, funds for this were also allocated accordingly. Why is it all? Interestingly, in the vast majority of cases, all these buildings have survived several eras and are still in operation. Even the barracks on the sidings continue to live, despite the fragility wooden structures. Only now centralized electricity and (or) heat supply has been supplied to these buildings almost everywhere. But what was it like under the tsar, when it was technically unrealizable in such a volume? There must have been some secrets. Let's see. Let's start, as in the Navy, with the latrines of the platform latrines.

If you look closely, then something is too thick a pipe on the platform toilet. If there is an ordinary wood-burning stove, then why such difficulties?

Indeed, this is not an isolated case. Pipe on a building latrine obviously not easy. What secret can she keep to herself? I will not intrigue and again give an executive drawing from the volume on the Kharkov-Kherson railway, which reflects reality better than all similar volumes.

Anyone who has ever had a similar toilet will immediately be slightly surprised. Well, probably, this knot in this design is the least protected from vandalism and theft, at least by the fact that a lantern is depicted on the walls there. But what is the device circled in red in the toilet? Is it an oven? It is quite possible that on some top views even something similar to a firebox is drawn. Why, then, did the engineer not indicate a chimney-air duct doubled in each other, as it should be logically? And the logic in general is quite simple - this is a furnace that does not use fuel. That is why the tops of the pipes on the roofs of the toilets are suspiciously clean. Actually, these are not chimneys at all, but ventilation pipes, one of which removes air from the cesspools, the other from the toilet itself. Well, the stove actually gives all the heat into the room without any pipe, approximate view such oven is specified. The toilet is a building for temporary stay of people, and there was no need for a separate outlet of the air exhausted by the stove to the outside. Can anyone imagine a similar toilet somewhere now? How many of them I have seen, and even obviously old ones, in such a performance, nowhere have I ever seen in them any hints of either lighting or heating. But how did such an oven work? It's hard to understand from the drawings. The secret most likely lay again in the pointed spiers on the roof of the toilet and in the pipe itself, which on top could have caches-cavities for laying certain items. As you can see, the technology was the same everywhere and it was used almost everywhere. Move on.

As you know, the line staff on the sections of the road lived in the barracks. Who was there, roughly imagines what it is. Typical buildings of such barracks can be found almost everywhere; they have not undergone significant changes through the years.

Let's look at a drawing from the same old collection and note some details.

As you can see, the roof of a typical barracks again contains pointed elements, between which there is a lattice. The fact that this is a lattice is beyond doubt, because the hatching of this element does not coincide with the roof. But why are all the pipes on the ridge of the roof? Maybe the engineer simplified his work and installed pipes so as not to draw too much? Perhaps, but in the top view, almost all chimneys are really located strictly along the central axis of the building, in place of the main wall. In order for the roof structure to be stable under snow, it is necessary that there is a single inextricable beam in the roof ridge (correct if wrong). Chimneys are completely out of place here. We look at modern photo barracks. Chimneys there are far from the place of the ridge. What's the matter here? Let's look further. In the room of the road master there is some kind of mannered triangular furnace. It can be seen that he was not an easy person, well, he had an oven, respectively, according to his status. Probably something like that.

Bah, yes, this is our old friend, a fireplace converted into a stove. The photo, apparently, is already a late revision of such a device for fuel. But if we assume that in its original form it was a non-fuel fireplace, then why did its pipe go to the ridge of the roof and cross the grate with pointed elements? The answer suggests itself - the grate was the reason for his work, and from it to the fireplace in the wall there was a metal connection. Switching on and off such a “fireplace” was carried out through a hole with a door on top or on the side (always, looking at such doors, I thought what they were for). Well, what happened to the stoves in the lower-ranking staff rooms?

I was no less often surprised earlier by furnaces of such a design. Painfully, they did not fit into either the interior or the understanding of the process. I noticed on many that the furnace holes on them, both from above and below, look like foreign bodies, and sometimes there were even suspicions that their doors were taken from other structures. It turns out that they acted on the same principle? Not surprising. As a child, I once watched how they broke such a stove. Its walls from the inside were lined with bricks, and coins of 1952 were found inside the seams of this brick. A completely irrelevant detail, but it still says something. But how did such barracks look at the very time they were built?

It may seem, but the pipes really stand on the ridge of the roof, and are covered (or covered) with metal casings on top, as if they were not chimneys at all. And there are a lot of such photos. M-yes .. It seems that everything is clear with heating. How was the electricity? Unfortunately, there are very few photos of the interior of civil railway structures in the public domain. But the ones that do exist are impressive.

I do not presume to assert that this light is a product of atmospheric electricity, but there are very many indications of this. Photo from the beginning of the 20th century.

As you can see, in the history of railways, not everything is so simple.

We continue our excursion along the old railway.

Today's topic will be bridges and overpasses. Like, what could be easier, although their production is one of the hardest work? But no, and here come across incomprehensible miracles. Many times I have heard versions that during the construction of the first railways, the builders adapted the existing structures for bridges and viaducts, and the origin of these structures is rather dark. Let's take a look.

Probably not, the buildings are under construction. Only the appearance of the stone is slightly strange. The feeling that this is a previously processed stone, which had already stood in the masonry somewhere before. Maybe there are other photos?

Although the photo is black and white, it is clearly visible that the stone on the top of the bull and on its sides is completely different in color, and most likely it also differs in the material of the stone. This is the construction of a bridge across the Zeya River at the beginning of the 20th century. Is it really for the sake of such an occasion that stones were mined and brought from afar different types? And if you take a closer look at the stone on the sides?

Something suspiciously stone is perfectly round in the bottom photo, as if the finished stone block was sawn into separate stones and reassembled with mortar in a caisson at the bottom of the river. Well, in the top photo, all the stones have the same width (between the front and the inside), as if they were made in the same form, like a raw brick. Very strange. Another photo of the construction of this bridge:

Look closely at the stones. If they were hewn, then heaps of garbage should lie here. But he is not. And all the stones have a suspicious rectangular shape. As we know, nature does not tolerate right angles, and in this form, stones are not found in their original form. What is this? Yes, actually nothing complicated, this stone for the exterior decoration of the bulls of the bridge is simply cast from geopolymer concrete, the secret of which is now lost (officially at least).

Well, this is the extraction of stone in a quarry for the construction of a bridge across the Tom River. The feeling that the builders are dismantling ancient megalith, pretty battered by some kind of cataclysm.

Heavy in general work- construction of bridges. And responsible. In general, bridge builders have a tradition during the testing of the bridge to drive the entire design and construction team under the bridge and load it as much as possible. good tradition. And here is a photo of a test of a bridge across the same Zeya River in the Alekseevsk region (clickable).

As we can see, there is no project team under the bridge, but the top of the sky above the bridge has been cut off with something by a retoucher. Stop.
I would have thought for a long time why it was suddenly so cut off, if it weren’t for the material kindly sent agrish. Only here the road is geographically slightly different (South-West, now it is Ukraine-Moldova, but that's not the point).

Very interesting objects suddenly begin to emerge on railway bridges, overpasses and footbridges across the tracks. The quality is not very good, but what is there is a bit surprising to say the least.

This is the famous Boyarka. The question arises, why did Pavka Korchagin get there like that, procuring fuel, even if the bridges at this station were illuminated by something incomprehensible (more precisely, it is clear that not by fuel)?

It's about the same here, but higher. There was a version that kerosene lamps were in such lanterns, but after such a design complexity, this version will not be consistent.

In general, the same thing. Incomprehensible lights are on the body of the bridge, and are an integral part of its design.

Well, such a tunnel was once in the Zhmerinka railway station (I remember something from the work of Willy Tokarev about Zhmerinka, from which they fled to America). I wonder if such a tunnel is alive there (it would definitely win in the nomination for the most affordable housing for individual citizens)?

Interestingly, nowhere in the volumes of executive drawings of those years is there anything like at least brackets for lanterns located on the spans of bridges. Apparently, another mystery shrouded in darkness.

If you dream of a railroad, it means that you will soon find that your business needs special attention, as your enemies are trying to seize the initiative in it.

If a girl dreams of a railway, it means that she will go on a trip to visit her friends and have a wonderful time there.

To dream of a barrier on a railroad track means betrayal in your affairs.

Passing through the intersection of sleepers on the railway means a time of anxiety and exhausting work.

Walking on rails in a dream is a sign that you will achieve great happiness thanks to your skillful business management.

See in a dream railways, flooded clean water, means that misfortune will darken the joy of life for a while, but it will be reborn again, like a phoenix from the ashes.

Dream Interpretation - Railway

The railway in a dream portends a profitable journey at someone else's expense. If in a dream you are driving along it, then pretty soon find out for yourself what exactly is an obstacle in your affairs, and resolutely begin to eliminate these obstacles.

dreaming railroad station says that in the coming days you will have to use public transport services.

For a young girl to dream of herself railway station means that she will happily go to her friends who are vacationing outside the city, and have great fun with them there.

Seen in a dream railroad crossing symbolizes your desire for new goal which will encounter significant obstacles and difficulties. Walking on sleepers in a dream portends the intensification of your activities in a new direction, which will bring immediate success and high incomes.

The railroad arrow means that in this moment you are at a crossroads in life, move the arrow - make the final choice.

Crossing the railroad tracks in front of a rapidly approaching train means the onset of an alarm streak in your life, full of painstaking but unprofitable work.

Passing over a railway bridge across a large, endless river in a dream means that a temporary decline in your affairs will be replaced by a sharp rise. Seeing yourself in a dream as a conductor of a railway car - in reality you will have to turn to your closest neighbors for a small service.

If you dream that you are riding a train through an absolutely hopeless railway tunnel- this means that soon you will be involved in an unusual enterprise that will turn out to be sad events or endless troubles for you. Walking in a dream along an underground railway crossing - you will never be able to unravel the mystery over which you have been racking your brains for a long time. Getting lost in such a transition means that you are embarking on a path that will not lead you to success, but move you away from it.