Why such small interest to Russian Railway?Well, for some reason it takes a while on this particular 'Worldwide' forum to get responses (actually, until railroad.net moved to new servers a month ago, it had a bad tendency to crash now and then. Since they migrated to the new servers things the uptime has been very good [crosses fingers], but I wonder if some posters had been scared away by the crashes and 'gave up' - meaning it can get a bit quiet here now and then).
That aside, I will take on my usual duty of asking rather silly questions and making silly comments, which may or may not have any particular relevance to the thread....
1.) The VL10 - how old is that image? Does this locomotive class still have red stars on their nose, 16 years after the fall of the Soviet Union? Also, it looks as if this is one of the few locomotive classes to have only one operator's cab as opposed to the one cab at each end that the other locos have...
2.) Except for the CHME3, which looks like a switcher type - also, why the pantograph on the long hood, is this really a diesel?
3.) EMUs - The EPL9 looks fine, although it's a bit of a shame it got cut off (I would have liked to see the non-cab end - guess I can search the web later).
The ER2 though - is this really a EMU (strictly this should mean that every car has it's own power feed, motors, and operator's cab - however, in reality EMUs can be 2 or 3 car coupled (or 'married' pairs) to save the cost of operator cabs and on maintanence down the road
http://www.ebbc.org/rail/M7.jpg
Anyway, this looks like a locomotive with passenger seating part, and the remainder slave cars....
The DMUs you show look the same way - like our old style articulated 'streamlined' passenger trains http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Zephyr
4.) The Nevski Express passenger cars looks so much like 1950s style Pullmans - It because of the undercarriage skirting (which tended to 'disappear' from the US passenger cars during maintainence)
5.) Sorry, but the High-Speed ER200 looks way too much like 1960s Japanese trains - are they based on that design?
Again, interesting photos, albiet some didn't load, but still very nice...