One of the most interesting museums in Moscow - this is, of course, the Museum of Railway Transport of Russia, located on two floors, with extensive exhibits, high-tech equipment and well-established excursion service.The museum was opened in August 2011, after a long reconstruction.
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Territorial Museum Railroad Museum is adjacent to Paveletskaya Station and the railway station is located behind the building to the left of ways.The historical part of the museum, situated on an area of 1850 square meters.meters, includes a series of exhibits dedicated to the development of Russian Railways.The pride of the museum is considered to be the legendary steam locomotive U-127, built in 1910, which in January 1924 (two days after the death of Lenin) drove funeral train with the body of the leader of the Gerasimovsky platform to the Paveletskaya station.After this sad mission of the U-127 for another 13 years, drove the trains, it wrote off in 1937.Then it was decided to keep the locomotive as a monument.However, certified Memorial U-127 in 1999 alone.About flight mourning the deceased leader of the proletariat was not mentioned.
Also U-127, Railroad Museum at Paveletskaya other exhibits from the number of the rolling stock does not.All wheel museum rarities are on the territory adjacent to the Riga station.It is widely represented various railway equipment, locomotives, built in the first half of the twentieth century, cars, loading platforms, schebnenasypnye self-propelled machines, tracklayer and others. Railroad Museum collects throughout Russia rare exhibits available, usually in a single copy, and sorarity, no doubt, is the locomotive of OB-841, built 110 years ago.
Besides vintage railroad copies at Riga station sidings and are quite modern locomotives, wagons and railroad cars.The exposition is made up of hardware that somehow left their mark in the history of the Russian railways.
Exhibition Centre Museum
at the Exhibition Center of the museum presents the current model railway equipment.Of particular interest to visiting the Railroad Museum is a simulator of electric VL80S.This unique device discloses a technique of training drivers.Many of the historical part of the museum exhibits reflect the current situation on the Russian railway.Visitors can see the Kazan station bird's-eye view, the layout is made with absolute precision.
reputation as one of the best exhibition companies oblige Moscow Central Museum of Railway Transport of Russia regularly update the museum exposition.Presented in the form of a working model of high-speed train "Sputnik", a bit further on the miniature rails carried by high-speed train "Sapsan", linking Moscow, St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod.The current exhibition of the Museum of Railway Transport carefully thought out and presented to the layout of existing models, photographs and drawings.
