Museum of Russian Railways. Part 2
From above you can see not only steam locomotives, but also various carriages.
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But this is a much less entertaining activity. In this case, it is better to go down to their level and look from the “ground”. Their assortment is quite diverse. The age-old patriarchs are especially attractive in appearance.
There are some really intricate designs.
But it is even more interesting to go inside the carriages, and many of them provide such an opportunity. This is what a Class III commuter carriage looks like from a century ago.
These carriages carried settlers to the Far East and Siberia.
Mail was traveling for them or from them.
It was also necessary to deliver products over long distances. This is what a refrigerated wagon looked like (text: isothermal wagon).
Some of the carriages were “sawed up”
to make display stands out of them.
(Left: top – church car, bottom – prisoner car. Right: boiler for heating water for tea – remember: the main activity of the trip).
There’s even a virtual train. And not just any one, but an imperial one!
You can walk around in virtual reality as the Emperor himself.
After several hours of walking, my favorite is this carriage.
Because it’s not a carriage at all, but a buffet stylized as one. The kitchen is so-so, but it doesn’t matter at that point.
When you enter some carriages, you bump into guests and they’re not people,
but mannequins. Sometimes you come across mannequins that are not people.
They are mostly monochrome, but there are exceptions.
There are plenty of them on the platforms in completely different situations.
People hang out with them and take pictures with great pleasure.
There are also extremely expressive compositions, the integrity and spirit of which people do not violate.
Some of the mannequins of railway specialties are “digitized”: there is a mannequin standing next to a board with its image. And suddenly he comes to life there and tells in a monologue who he is and what he does. Among them: a carriage inspector,
brakeman,
coupler and stewardess.
But the surreal thing is with the movers. There is a luggage cart with suitcases, in the open lids of which are two monitors, facing each other. On one monitor is an elderly pre-revolutionary mover, on the other – a young Soviet one. This is how they conduct a dialogue there without external interference.
There is actually quite a bit of interactivity there: all the exhibit signs are multimedia: you can read the technical description, you can study the history, and even in English.
The controls are implemented in the form of a railway turntable – a tribute to the museum theme.
They write that the area of the museum is over 39,000 square meters, i.e. more than five football fields.
That’s why I’m so tired!
To be continued: Museum of Russian Railways. Part 3