El21-020 (made in East Germany) and VL22M-1959 (made in USSR) and other equipment stands idle at the "Bakal mines railway" depot. Bakal mines are one of the oldest iron ore mining in Russia and the oldest in the Southern Ural. The story of its starts in 1757.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)