[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Zhitomir trains, and best URL for huge free library in USA

[Jerry Frank]

The book:

Ukraine: A Historical Atlas
Paul Magosci

has a map of the development of rail lines in Ukraine including the years they opened.  Hopefully your local library (perhaps nearest University library) has a copy.


Jerry




----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlotte Dubay" <hoeserhistory at aol.com>
To: ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org, danwwagner at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 10:21:06 AM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Zhitomir trains,	and best URL for huge free library in USA



DanW.Wagner sent me a photo of train station in Zhitomir:

Dan
Yes, that IS the picture that I have. HORSES??  and I thought it was a "regular" train. hah.
 
I just read the following this morning, on Wiki: 
 
The Tsarskoye Selo Railway line was officially opened on 30 October 1837, when an 8-carriage train was hauled by a steam locomotive between Saint Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo. Until the construction of the Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway in 1851, it was the only passenger train line in Russia.[3] In 1899 it was merged into the Moscow-Windau-Rybinsk Railways and now forms part of the Oktyabrskaya Railway. 
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
I found nothing on when the ENGINE pulled trains came to Volhynia. Probably need to go to the library. 
 
Actually, some of you may not know this:
THERE IS A FREE DIGITAL LIBRARY ON THE INTERNET THAT CARRIES THOUSANDS OF BOOKS called internet archive digital library. www.archive.org 
This has lots on genealogy. 
If you have never been there, take a visit. And you don't have to whisper!
 
Guess I will try a search there to see what I can find on trains. Real trains!


Charlotte DuBay
hoeserhistory at aol.com



Charlotte DuBay
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