Towards modern railroads

Abstract

The historical events that predetermined the current state of domestic railways in the context of the daily life of compatriots are described. It is emphasized that, having given birth to a new tradition of messages, the Russians have created a new system of relations with the world.The railroad played a leading role in this and has a long and honorable history. The railway, the famous Russian cast-iron, has a long and honorable history. They gave a huge impetus to the development of mail and telegraph (the telegraph was already on the first highway St. Petersburg — Moscow, Tsar Nicholas expressed the liveliest interest in it, asked the telegraph operator to find out the weather in St. distance.Subsequently, the appearance of the cast iron changed: a contact network with a walking row of poles, modern locomotives and wagons, reinforced concrete sleepers, standard structures came to it, a train ticket can be taken without leaving home — this is inevitable and correct. In 1988, the railways of the USSR carried a quarter of the world freight turnover. Without railways, one cannot imagine the history and fate of the Russian state, and literally in all areas of its life.