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EVENING BELL: A holiday of the passing day How many monuments to steam locomotives have been erected all over Russia? The magazine “Rodina“ counted them, having traveled from Moscow to Vladivostok. Sixteen! In Yurga-2 and Tayga. In Nizhneudinsk and Mariinsk - with touching verses on the tender: “Mighty worker of the Great Trans-Siberian Railway, you have become a symbol of the people's strength. And having earned the people's thanks, you have forever stood on this pedestal!“ In Shilka and Shimanovskaya, Belogorsk and Bureya, Ruzhino and Sibirtsevo. And how many flashed past the window at night... What other machine has so many monuments erected in Russia? Only the “thirty-four“! But their contribution to the Victory is comparable. The Germans would not have been thrown back from Moscow without a steam locomotive - this is the memorial plaque on the Novosibirsk railway station, from where trains with Siberian divisions left for the west in the fall of 1941. And they would not have b... Source: Lord Of War