RailPictures.Net Photo: Russian Railways El2 at Bakal, Chelyabinsk region, Russia by Ilya Semyonoff

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� Russian Railways (more..)
� El2 (more..)

� Bakal mines railroad (more..)
� Bakal, Chelyabinsk region, Russia (more..)
� January 03, 2015

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� Ilya Semenoff (more..)
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"EL2" industrial electric DC locomotive with snowblower fighting with snow at "Bakal mines railroad" tracks in the "blue hour". "EL2" series manufactured in East Germany from 1957 to 1967 for the needs of the USSR industry. There were built 230 locomotives. "Bakal mines" is one of the oldest iron ore mining in Russia and the oldest in the Southern Ural. The story of mines starts in 1757.

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