Giant African Snail escapes in the train (pictures)

[gyuri_ft]

http://www.eng.rzd.ru/images/flash/index.html

N.B.:

1) what is pictured outside as "1st class sleeper" is a second class (there is a small detail most railfans will notice and smile at mistake). The interior pictures are 100% correct. The story about giant snail is also true - at least the "victim" (the drummer of EXIT rock band) is a real person Funny is, he was born in the same city as myself.

2) the pictured train is a regularly scheduled train, not an expensive tourist train. The cars do look fancy but in the fact, they were much better in 1980-s. Today it's more for the eye and for selling than for the comfort.

 

[Sam Damon]

What is with that giant snail, anyway? Thanks for the link.

The VR tour puts anything on Amtrak or VIA's website to shame.

 

[Anthony]

Thanks for this link! I am interested in the Trans-Siberian route and have never seen anything like this online.

 

[AmtrakWPK]

WOW!! That was amazing!! And even more incredible, it worked perfectly on my linux machine, didn't have to adjust, or install anything. Wonderful!

 

[gyuri_ft]

What is with that giant snail, anyway? Thanks for the link.
The VR tour puts anything on Amtrak or VIA's website to shame.

It "run" ( run????) away, climbed in the shower, scared a heck out of Swiss girl in the 1st class sleeper as she was taking the shower, crawled between some cars but with happy end.

 

[gyuri_ft]

Thanks for this link! I am interested in the Trans-Siberian route and have never seen anything like this online.

If you have a spare ca. $300 you can enjoy a round-trip on it starting from Central Europe. $500 will be sufficient for a r/t in the first class. An extra $50 and you are in China (easy) or N.K. (not-so-easy).

But you can ride the newly refurbished N.K. sleepers within Russia, talk to Koreans without them being affraid and de-train before the sleeper enters Korea. A friend of mine did it 3 mo. ago, you can see the pics of the car (before it was refurbished) here: (logistically NK as well as China belongs to European rail system):

http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/ne/North_Korea/pix.html

Video:



I did look at our old super-8 done back 1983 on the eastbound Nr. 4 ("Chinese"). We look much younger on that super-8 movie, the cars comared with Helmut's youtube video, too, are much younger. Unfortunately it's more difficult to refurbish us than the sleepers.

 

[haolerider]

Thanks for this link! I am interested in the Trans-Siberian route and have never seen anything like this online.

If you have a spare ca. $300 you can enjoy a round-trip on it starting from Central Europe. $500 will be sufficient for a r/t in the first class. An extra $50 and you are in China (easy) or N.K. (not-so-easy).

But you can ride the newly refurbished N.K. sleepers within Russia, talk to Koreans without them being affraid and de-train before the sleeper enters Korea. A friend of mine did it 3 mo. ago, you can see the pics of the car (before it was refurbished) here: (logistically NK as well as China belongs to European rail system):

http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/ne/North_Korea/pix.html

Video:

Gyuri:

Can you provide a link to the website for the Trans-Siberian route?

 

[haolerider]

Thanks for this link! I am interested in the Trans-Siberian route and have never seen anything like this online.

If you have a spare ca. $300 you can enjoy a round-trip on it starting from Central Europe. $500 will be sufficient for a r/t in the first class. An extra $50 and you are in China (easy) or N.K. (not-so-easy).

But you can ride the newly refurbished N.K. sleepers within Russia, talk to Koreans without them being affraid and de-train before the sleeper enters Korea. A friend of mine did it 3 mo. ago, you can see the pics of the car (before it was refurbished) here: (logistically NK as well as China belongs to European rail system):

http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/ne/North_Korea/pix.html

Video:

Gyuri:

I found the site myself..thanks,