The Museum of North Caucasus Railway (russian: Музей Северо-Кавказской железной дороги, ) is a railway museum in

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East Eu ...

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, Russia, which opened on 1 August 2003. It consists of a room in a Community Center of railwaymen and a display area 12,400 m² at Glubokaya halt on the south-west outskirts of Rostov-on-Don. The first museum of history of North Caucasus Railway opened on 4 November 1960 in a Community Center of railwaymen at

Rostov-Glavny Rostov-Glavny (russian: link=no, Росто́в-Гла́вный) is the main railway station of Rostov-on-Don in Russia. Main information Rostov station is one of the biggest stations on the North Caucasus Railway. The station also includes com ...

station. Permanent exposition includes: information boards about famous North Caucasus railwaymen, model trains on a scale 1:15, uniform, cases, panoramas, implements of various times. The exhibition covers the period from emergence of rail transport in the region up to the present moment. The various collections from the Russian Civil War and the Great Patriotic War, now exceed 12,000 objects in the main fund. The display area at Glubokaya halt opened on 1 August 2003, which marked celebrations of Railwayman's Day. Historical rolling stock (60 locomotives and carriages) is exhibiting here. Also 19 locomotives and carriages are reserves at Rostov-Zapadny station. A lot of steam locomotives in the museum are in good condition. This rolling stock participates in historical reconstructions, filmings and celebratory parades. The total length of the exhibition tracks is 1.9 km.

Exhibits

The exhibition presents freight and passenger carriages, motor locomotives, track motorcars, draisines, maintenance vehicles, semaphore, light-traffic,

water crane A water crane is a device used for delivering a large volume of water into the tank or tender of a steam locomotive. The device is also called a water column in the United States and Australia. As a steam locomotive consumes large quantities of ...

. The oldest object is a tank car for chemicals from the late 19th century. The following full-size locomotives and

electric multiple unit An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a numbe ...

are on display.

Locomotives

*Class E steam locomotive * Class FD steam locomotive * Class L steam locomotive * Class P36 steam locomotive * Class TE steam locomotive (trophy german Class 52) *Class SO steam locomotive *Class S^u steam locomotive *Class TE3 diesel locomotive *Class TEP60 diesel locomotive *Class TEP10 diesel locomotive *Class TEM1 diesel locomotive *Class TU10 narrow gauge diesel locomotive *Class VL8 electric locomotive *Class VL22^m electric locomotive *Class VL41 electric locomotive *Class VL61 electric locomotive *Class VL80 electric locomotive *Class VL84 electric locomotive *Class ChS4 electric locomotive

Electric multiple unit

*ER22 series electric multiple unit (two driving cars and a power car)

References

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