Trans Siberian Train

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Trans Siberian Train #38 Schedule


Moscow Yarloslav Station on evening of departure










The dining car













Moscow to Tomsk Train #38 (It's the #37 from Tomsk to Moscow.)









Bob with our wagon's provodnitsa, Lubba
On our trip through Eastern Europe and Western Siberia on the mainline of the Trans- Siberian Railway, the train would make periodic scheduled stops of some ten to twenty minutes at major towns. Apparently, this was for safety checks and sometimes to change engines as well as disembarking and embarking passengers. The passengers would hang around the doors waiting for them to open with the provodnitsa, in her dress uniform for the occasion, standing guard and signaling when it was safe for us to disembark. There would be a rush to surround the local vendors who had gathered on the platform with a great variety of sausages, dried fish, ice cream, bread, soda, bottled water and, most providently, beer. To some of my fellow Minnesota beer purists, I would like to say that it is not difficult to develop a taste for warm beer. A toot on the whistle or a shout from the provodnitsa would bring the throngs with their plunder back to the train for the next segment of the trip.










2nd day on the train