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3 unusual facts about SS Baikal


SS Baikal

SS Baikal was an ice-breaking train ferry that linked the eastern and western portions of the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Lake Baikal.

By June 1896 the icebreaker had been delivered for assembly to the village of Listvenichnoye.

Before the Circum-Baikal Railway was opened in 1905, Baikal, and later the Angara, carried two loads a day between piers at Baikal and Mysovaya.



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