Portal:Trains/Featured picture/Week 31, 2006

Simskaia Station of the Samara-Zlatoust Railway, Russia

View from the rear platform of the Simskaia Station of the Samara-Zlatoust Railway, part of the Trans-Siberian Railway, Russia. This is a very early color photograph by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, made in 1910 on three glass plates, one for each of the primary colors of red, green, and blue. Outfitted with a specially equipped railroad car darkroom provided by Tsar Nicholas II, and in possession of two permits that granted him access to restricted areas and cooperation from the empire's bureaucracy, Prokudin-Gorskii documented the Russian Empire around 1909 through 1915.

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