Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — Winter Railroading in Russia. [ARTICLE]

Winter Railroading in Russia.

Southwestern Russia had an “old fashioned” snow storm last winter, in which travelers were accumulated and held so long at certain small stations that it was very difficult to get food enough for them. At one station there were over 2000 passengers, waiting to be forwarded, and 8000 laborers engaged in digging out the road. In some places the snow was thirty feet deep. All this was about in the latlture of Paris and Vienna. Regular rescue trains with sledges were fitted out, provided with provisions, wraps, overshoes, etc., and sent in search of the stalled trains, whose passengers were usually carried by them to Odes sa.