Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1896) (14781675913)

Identifier: locomotiveengine09hill (find matches)
Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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EASTERN END OF GREAT SIBERIAN RAILWAV. TO ST. PETERSBURG 6,547 MILES. The Eastern End of the Great Siberian Railway. We have just received the photographs here reproduced from the irrepressible Lodian—he of the pig-tail and the paper-soled shoes. This enterprising traveler has reached Vladivostok, on the Sea of Japan, and started on his long trip across Siberia and Russia. These photographs were made by F. I. Podzorov, of Vladivostok. Mr. Lodian writes: It was a pleasureto clear inland from Vladivostok; it is a town of about 20,000 inhabitants, without a single made road or street; they are either awfully muddy or extremely dusty, and always filthy, fetid and revolting. After nine weeks spent in Japan, Siberia is disappointing at the start. On our steamer coming up were 400 Chinese navvies for the Siberian road, and the stench from them was awful. My next address will be Irkutsk. Ce...
...Trans-Siberian Railroad is, nor how much of it is done, and we append here a few facts on the subject: To begin with, only the military necessities of a great empire could undertake to build such a road across such a country. It is being constructed in sections—from both ends and from points that canbe reached by river steamers in the interior. It is now possible to travel direct from St. Petersburg to Omsk, a distanceof 2,673 miles. From Omsk to the Obriver—384 miles—the rails are laid thewhole distance, but the earthworks are notcomplete. On the next section, that from the Ob river to Krasnoyarsk, 467 miles, the rails are also laid, and a beginning has been made of the iron bridge, 2,800 feet long, across the Ob, that is to join the two...