[FPSPACE] Marvelous collection of new photos from Baykonur

[Sergey V. Andreev]

Good evening

It's very nice that peope in Novosti-Kosmonavtiki are so informed in the field 
or railroads.
I saw the image of rail from Gagarin launch pad with words "metalurg factory 
named after comrd.Stalin". 
It may be funny if somebody notice soviet rails at Cape Canaveral.

http://cosmopark.ru/r7/r7.htm
There are 20 pages of images about R-7. 20*28=560 images+images of engines.
Images of nature and remnants of buildings I considered not interesting and 
haven't hanged on site.
Alas I have comparable with mr. Prodanov camera.


Sincerely yours
Sergey V. Andreev


On Friday 25 September 2009 12:12 pm, Igor Lissov wrote:
> Jim,
>
> That's a rare photo indeed because before ASTP rails at the Pad 1 were
> replaced so that U.S. visitors would not see these old markings. As of this
> markings, I think it means Russian-Belgian Metallurgy Society (Русско-
> Бельгийское Металлургическое Общество) in Yenakiyevo (Donbass,
> Ukraine). To the right one can also see letters M.-Kaz. which means
> [the society of]  Moscow -- Kazan railway.
>
> I do not believe in English stocks. Rails were replaced many times
> at Russian railways, the older ones being sent to a less used lines
> and spur tracks. So in 1955-1957 they indeed used pre-Bolshevik
> rails taken from regular service in the inner Baikonur railroad.
>
> Igor Lissov
>
>
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> From: "James Oberg" <jameseoberg at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 19:23
> Subject: [FPSPACE] Marvelous collection of new photos from Baykonur
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>
> Marvelous photographs of a recent visit to Baykonur (text in Russian):
>
> May 7, 2009 – Roman Prodanov (was there as a child) attended a Progress
> launch
>
> http://www.prodanov.ru/stories/baikonur-1/   Driving there
>
> http://www.prodanov.ru/stories/baikonur-2/   City
>
> http://www.prodanov.ru/stories/baikonur-3/    Cosmodrome (including museum)
>
>
>
> Intriguing photo he took (section 3) at the Gagarin Start of a cast iron
> ingot
>
> used in the underpinning of the rail tracks. It is dated August 1910!! The
>
> ingot is stamped with the abbreviation R.B.M.O., whatever that meant.
>
>
>
> Don't forget that the German 1939 map of Tyuratam already showed a rail
> line
>
> extending north to where the pad area later was located. It was associated
> with a
>
> British rail project early in the 1900's. Is it possible that there were
> stocks of
>
> construction materials left at that location that were later used in pad
> construction?
>
>
>
>
>
> Рельсы, по которым движется транспортер тоже необычные, высокопрофильные.
> Попадаются рельсы сделанные ещё до революции, есть изготовленные в США и
> Англии.   Р.Б.М.О. V!! 1910
>
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