A little bit of information. The tram is a single 4,7-mi-long line that connects Volchanka and Lesnaja Volchanka, the only two neighbourhoods of the city. 13 stops, russian gauge, 7 trams and a tractor to push snow of the tracks. The forest route is, basically, the space between the two neighbourhoods. Volchanks is 11,000 people.
@@CanadianLange 11,000 people? Damn. The capital of my home state, Columbus Ohio, has over a million people and no tram line. It's the LARGEST city in America WITHOUT one.
That depressing looks comes in large part because there is little vegetation, and the grass is muddy etc. It looks like that everywhere where there is proper winter but currently no snow.
Forced to watch a 30 second ad before a video with Power Point with some shots of the train. Name of the town? Nope. Population of the town? Nope. How many stops on the tram? Nope. How long is the length of the tram? Nope. Any information at all beyond saying that German prisoners built it? Nope. If you were a student handing this in as an assignment, I'd fail you for the half-ass job at providing literally no useful information at all.
exactly what I was thinking. That looks similar to those tatra trams? Where is it made , how is the maintenance done. Will they get a new old tram to keep it rolling. What happens in 10 15 years. Someone did not finish this.
The name of the town is Volchansk which is mentioned in subtitles in the video actually. Population is 8 885, going down from the peak of 25 000 since the 60es and most probably disappear off the map soon as there's nothing much to do here.
Our town had less than 19,000 people, and had a tram line until 1950, when it was bought up and destroyed by General Motors, Firestone Tire, and several Oil Companies. Big Corporations destroy everything in America.
If that’s irony, you‘re an idiot, because after almost 70 years without maintenance by the Russians, this is what a railroad looks like. Edit: They person I replied to deleted the comment, but he said something like „how is it good engineering, the rails look so bad“
@@RundfunkerOnline it has nothing to do with german engineering, idiots. German POW were simply used as slaves to build it, they were not in charge in anything
@@mekaniklboltmb4880 AKA, the tram most likely to be serving after the apocalypse. I've seen footage of those things running on rails that look an oscilloscope display.
I am glad this city has a tram. It is a shame that some people just can't seem to obey the rules here. Trams help ease congestion. Eventhough this is a very small town but a way to beautify a small town is to do it with Transit Oriented Development or TOD for short. TOD gets rid of the filth. In major cities, it rips down crack houses, things like that and puts coffee houses and grocery stores in their places.
The changes follow the tram because land values increase along tram routes, although that depends to some extent on the taxation systems. In Germany a town will invest in the infrastructure knowing they'll get the money back in increased taxes. There's a flip side though: the real estate developers make a killing buying and selling the land and taxpayers pay for the infrastructure. And it isn't just 'crack houses' that vanish, but also often affordable housing, because Landlords can charge more. Of course, dealing with the problems that cause crack houses would be a good move as well. I'm not arguing against trams though. that'd be a bit silly as I use the only rack tramway in Germany every day...
they've had the the thing for decades!!!!! no beautification followed. what a depressing thought that your city indentifies with a old tram. anybody who thinks socialism is wonderful this is what awaits.
The smallest town with a tram is either Soller, Mallorca, Spain (pretty awesome actually) or Gmunden, Austria. I like small towns with trams, it makes them really special and far more interesting. Hope the Russian town can improve its position with something that special.
Mr. Sir what I'm saying is people with the most are most likely to be unhappily than these people, because these people are happy with what they have and don't have expensive stuff to look after
Now if I had the money, I would go over there, clean the city up, give the tram a nice makeover so that instead of the tram looking like junk, it would look beautiful. I would even upgrade he tracks. i love the forest route. The trees are grand.
It pretty much is. Except North Korea's government is too busy with sending their people to labour camps, while Russian government is too busy with state funds embezzlement.
That depressing looks comes in large part because there is little vegetation, and the grass is muddy etc. It looks like that everywhere where there is proper winter but currently no snow.
I wish my Goddamn city had a tram, its small but its spread out in such a stupid distance that despite living close to the city centre, its a 30 minutes walk there. Idiotic.
Woltersdorf (near Berlin) tram th-cam.com/video/p-8W_feLFNo/w-d-xo.html Built 1913. 5,6 km long. Uses T57 trams (built betweeen 1957 and 1961 in the GDR). 1910 Woltersdorf had 2.517 inhabitants. 2016 8.163 (thus still smaller than Volchansk). Length is quite similar. Also that it runs partly through the forest (from 13:30 in the video). On special occasions they operate also their original street car from 1913. th-cam.com/video/TmNtt1lkgUE/w-d-xo.html Even older (1887) and shorter (1,91 km) the steam tram at Prien (Bavaria). th-cam.com/video/HQkhaC6KHkI/w-d-xo.html Operates however only in Summer (from begin on). And - despite using steam tram technology (max. speed 20 kph) - it is not operated under street car legislation but under Lokalbahn (minor regional railway) legislation.
woltersdorf in east-germany is even smaller but still has it's own tramway company. and all of their trams are from the 60s or even older. unfortunately, the article is not available in english: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra%C3%9Fenbahn_Woltersdorf
Среди городов - да, но самая маленькая травмайная система находится в поселке Черёмушки. Оно соединяет посёлок и гидроэлектростанцию (проезд бесплатный). Это ещё и самая новая травмайная система России, она была построена в 1991 году, вагоны были специально для посёлка сооружены в Ленинграде (Санкт-Петербурге)
North America used to have quite a few tram systems, but most of them died out because they had to share their street space with cars. If they'd been given dedicated lanes, they'd still be thriving today!
Not only North America, here in the Netherlands hundreds of towns were once connected by dozens of tram systems. Today, only the 4 largest cities have a tram. And for the same reasons too - it was the 50s, and buses were suddenly much more attractive.
+GrijzePilion except you lost the whole point. USA was promoting suburbia lifestyle and thousand other things to nurture inner market amd make sure that they won't need to scale down their overgrown car industry. Remember crazy toon's plan in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? That's actually what WAS GOING ON irl.
Mark Kraftz Ofcourse. Those small towns are piss poor. Outside Moscow and Petersburg life is the same as in soviet times. Dull and depressing If tracks fail completely then tram lines are shut down. Happened in bigger cities already.
Actually, you are right in a sort. The town on a steady decline from the peak of 25 000 citizens in the late 1950 to 8 885 nowadays. The German POWs and the mines and factory they worked in was the only reason it grown this size to begin with.
Not even small towns in Germany have even a tram, what is really sad, because the politics doesn't allow this effort, also the demand is really low. Our smallest tram route is located in a State Saxony-Anhalt in the City Naumburg, where (like in the smallest Russian town) trams from the 60s to the 70s driving their daily route.
I love It! Old school all the way. If there was transportation like that where I live I will use it very often. I wonder how many times each shift the driver drives this route and how long is a complete route. Time wise and kilometres.
City of Woltschansk Föderationskreis Ural Oblast Swerdlowsk Stadtkreis Woltschansk Bürgermeister Alexander Burgardt Erste Erwähnung 18. Jahrhundert Stadt seit 1956 Fläche 63 km² Bevölkerung 10.010 Einwohner (Stand: 14. Okt. 2010)[1] Bevölkerungsdichte 159 Einwohner/km² Höhe des Zentrums 240 m Zeitzone UTC+5 Telefonvorwahl (+7) 34383 Postleitzahl 624940, 624941 Kfz-Kennzeichen 66, 96, 196 OKATO 65 445 503 Geographische Lage Koordinaten ♁59° 56′ N, 60° 3′ O
Dima Leoniv население меньше 10 тысяч. У него интервью, наверное, никогда не брали раньше. Оператор мог бы и переснять разок дубль, если бы ему пофиг не было. Вот лишь бы докопаться до мелочи.
A little bit of information.
The tram is a single 4,7-mi-long line that connects Volchanka and Lesnaja Volchanka, the only two neighbourhoods of the city. 13 stops, russian gauge, 7 trams and a tractor to push snow of the tracks. The forest route is, basically, the space between the two neighbourhoods.
Volchanks is 11,000 people.
More information than the entire video in 10 seconds. Thank you! :D
@@CanadianLange 11,000 people? Damn. The capital of my home state, Columbus Ohio, has over a million people and no tram line. It's the LARGEST city in America WITHOUT one.
0:16, This is exactly what a Russian enjoying something looks like.
definitely!
Well... she's on her way to killing someone... look at that weapon next to her!
No I'm from Russia and the thats how a lot of people in Russia are,nobody fake smiles for no reason like in the United States ,people just stay real.
YOU TAKE WEAPON DEFEND LAND FROM MANY GERMANS~ Greeting From Komi Republic, Russia
Oldskool Raver All Europeans actually lol
that place looks depressing af
Lol thats a normal Russian town... You should see Norilsk.. Go ahead, search it.
That depressing looks comes in large part because there is little vegetation, and the grass is muddy etc. It looks like that everywhere where there is proper winter but currently no snow.
It's the time of year. Look at any midwestern US city that time of year. Also don't judge a place by the way buildings look on the outside.
why depressing ? ,cuz there no , clubs , neons and all modern popculture shits ?
yes
Forced to watch a 30 second ad before a video with Power Point with some shots of the train. Name of the town? Nope. Population of the town? Nope. How many stops on the tram? Nope. How long is the length of the tram? Nope. Any information at all beyond saying that German prisoners built it? Nope. If you were a student handing this in as an assignment, I'd fail you for the half-ass job at providing literally no useful information at all.
Nura BinTTrax exactly, I mean they do put the town name while interviewing the mayor, but that’s only s few seconds....
exactly what I was thinking. That looks similar to those tatra trams? Where is it made , how is the maintenance done. Will they get a new old tram to keep it rolling. What happens in 10 15 years. Someone did not finish this.
The name of the town is Volchansk which is mentioned in subtitles in the video actually. Population is 8 885, going down from the peak of 25 000 since the 60es and most probably disappear off the map soon as there's nothing much to do here.
holy cow, that towns smaller than my town in population but larger in land size.
I found a good article on the Wikipedia about Tram in Volchansk: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Volchansk
0:43 - the rails
Our town had less than 19,000 people, and had a tram line until 1950, when it was bought up and destroyed by General Motors, Firestone Tire, and several Oil Companies. Big Corporations destroy everything in America.
What's the name of your town?
@@Whitebeard79outOfRus Donbass
German engineering never cease to amaze me
If that’s irony, you‘re an idiot, because after almost 70 years without maintenance by the Russians, this is what a railroad looks like.
Edit: They person I replied to deleted the comment, but he said something like „how is it good engineering, the rails look so bad“
@@RundfunkerOnline it has nothing to do with german engineering, idiots. German POW were simply used as slaves to build it, they were not in charge in anything
yup and the tram is a soviet KV5
@@mekaniklboltmb4880 I think its a KTM-5
@@mekaniklboltmb4880 AKA, the tram most likely to be serving after the apocalypse. I've seen footage of those things running on rails that look an oscilloscope display.
Still better public transit than most cities in the US...
Need rail maintenance.
Our local railway museum has better track!
leclerc30 says:
"Need rail maintenance."
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That gives the distinctive feel of the ride.
Don't change a good thing.
lol
Well it looks like it would be a smoother ride if they didn't drive on the tracks, but instead the ground under the rails lol
There's no money for that, they would have to close it for good or keep it like it is.
No money for that, Putin need new tanks
The piano music is a bit overdone. Just show the damn tram.
th-cam.com/video/2tH4d79V5eo/w-d-xo.html - the original AP footage; longer and without music.
"Just eat the damn orange!"
That looks like a very comfortable and efficient method of travel. Tram cars circa 1965 give a wonderful feeling of nostalgia of the better days.
The car in the video was built in 2000
Comfortable? Looks as something you ride only if you want to crush your kidney stones.
@@heyyo162 That's because of crap rails
@@PneumatinisPlaktukas15 Of course, I didnt suspect seismic activity.
This is what rural Russia's HEAVY taxation by Moscow results in: locals using a 70 year old tram system built by the slave labor of WWI POWs.
Man some parts of russia are depressing
Its not so bad, but it was rainy day on the end of winter when everything was still grey and cold. Just badly chosen time for such video.
That is such an adorable little train line! I wish my home town had this.
I am glad this city has a tram. It is a shame that some people just can't seem to obey the rules here. Trams help ease congestion. Eventhough this is a very small town but a way to beautify a small town is to do it with Transit Oriented Development or TOD for short. TOD gets rid of the filth. In major cities, it rips down crack houses, things like that and puts coffee houses and grocery stores in their places.
Streetcar1664 Wtf, that city doesn't need a tram. It needs beautification
The changes follow the tram because land values increase along tram routes, although that depends to some extent on the taxation systems. In Germany a town will invest in the infrastructure knowing they'll get the money back in increased taxes.
There's a flip side though: the real estate developers make a killing buying and selling the land and taxpayers pay for the infrastructure. And it isn't just 'crack houses' that vanish, but also often affordable housing, because Landlords can charge more.
Of course, dealing with the problems that cause crack houses would be a good move as well.
I'm not arguing against trams though. that'd be a bit silly as I use the only rack tramway in Germany every day...
+Korschtal Shitgart eh?
they've had the the thing for decades!!!!! no beautification followed. what a depressing thought that your city indentifies with a old tram. anybody who thinks socialism is wonderful this is what awaits.
"trams help ease congestion" come here in Venice and you'll see
tramways are the best!
Yes
why the fuck am I here
Cause German break
Lord Gaben yeah
Lord Gaben nigga I seen you yesterday
You are here, because everyone likes trams!
Read title before seeing the video.
From the looks of the tracks in some shots it is amazing its not derailing all the time, they seem to have neglected the upkeep.
What a lovely tram, my favorite way to travel.
The smallest town with a tram is either Soller, Mallorca, Spain (pretty awesome actually) or Gmunden, Austria. I like small towns with trams, it makes them really special and far more interesting. Hope the Russian town can improve its position with something that special.
Also consider Naumburg, Germany. 2.5km single track.
I think you mean Gmunden, not Voecklabruck. The Gmunden tramline is only 2,3km long
Yeah, my mistake. It's Gmunden of course.
Sóller - 14075
Gmunden -13262
Волчанск - 8885
Serfaus,austria
This city looks so sad
Russia tends to look sad...
Mr. Sir but believe me their happiest, look how grateful they are for something whe consider "junkyard ready"
life-enjoyer101 yeah, cause that's how they think its normal, for them, that's an average life. They're happy
Mr. Sir what I'm saying is people with the most are most likely to be unhappily than these people, because these people are happy with what they have and don't have expensive stuff to look after
Mr. Sir but yeah it depends on where you life
0:43 look at the misalignment of the rail.
Minibus tram = best tram for vacations :-)
I would ride around and around. Until they let me drive it.
Now if I had the money, I would go over there, clean the city up, give the tram a nice makeover so that instead of the tram looking like junk, it would look beautiful. I would even upgrade he tracks. i love the forest route. The trees are grand.
Tracks are in bad shape, but in my city some tracks are even worse. No big deal
Tver'?
It look like North Korea
North korea is much worse
It pretty much is. Except North Korea's government is too busy with sending their people to labour camps, while Russian government is too busy with state funds embezzlement.
That depressing looks comes in large part because there is little vegetation, and the grass is muddy etc. It looks like that everywhere where there is proper winter but currently no snow.
North korea look like it)
It looks like "Communism" regardless of what country it is located in.
they should keep it, tram is a nice way of riding from a point to the other (plus it is eco-friendly)
I wish my Goddamn city had a tram, its small but its spread out in such a stupid distance that despite living close to the city centre, its a 30 minutes walk there.
Idiotic.
Woltersdorf (near Berlin) tram
th-cam.com/video/p-8W_feLFNo/w-d-xo.html
Built 1913. 5,6 km long. Uses T57 trams (built betweeen 1957 and 1961 in the GDR).
1910 Woltersdorf had 2.517 inhabitants. 2016 8.163 (thus still smaller than Volchansk).
Length is quite similar. Also that it runs partly through the forest (from 13:30 in the video).
On special occasions they operate also their original street car from 1913.
th-cam.com/video/TmNtt1lkgUE/w-d-xo.html
Even older (1887) and shorter (1,91 km) the steam tram at Prien (Bavaria).
th-cam.com/video/HQkhaC6KHkI/w-d-xo.html
Operates however only in Summer (from begin on). And - despite using steam tram technology (max. speed 20 kph) - it is not operated under street car legislation but under Lokalbahn (minor regional railway) legislation.
When I get a chance I'd definitely like to take a ride on that thing!!!
You mean the girl right?
woltersdorf in east-germany is even smaller but still has it's own tramway company. and all of their trams are from the 60s or even older. unfortunately, the article is not available in english:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra%C3%9Fenbahn_Woltersdorf
The abrupt track change in the beginning was crazy.
NANI? MULTI-TRACK DRIFTING?
Wow, and my city with a metro population pushing a million, only has a bus system-🚌--🤔
Среди городов - да, но самая маленькая травмайная система находится в поселке Черёмушки. Оно соединяет посёлок и гидроэлектростанцию (проезд бесплатный). Это ещё и самая новая травмайная система России, она была построена в 1991 году, вагоны были специально для посёлка сооружены в Ленинграде (Санкт-Петербурге)
A leftover from an era when every town and small city in every country had a tram. Now if only more of it had been preserved.
North America used to have quite a few tram systems, but most of them died out because they had to share their street space with cars. If they'd been given dedicated lanes, they'd still be thriving today!
Not only North America, here in the Netherlands hundreds of towns were once connected by dozens of tram systems. Today, only the 4 largest cities have a tram. And for the same reasons too - it was the 50s, and buses were suddenly much more attractive.
+GrijzePilion
except you lost the whole point. USA was promoting suburbia lifestyle and thousand other things to nurture inner market amd make sure that they won't need to scale down their overgrown car industry. Remember crazy toon's plan in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? That's actually what WAS GOING ON irl.
The car companies bought up the streetcars and broke them up, replacing them with their own buses. It's a sad thing.
Almost every bigger City in Europe has trams but you can't compare it to the thing in the video
But will they follow the damn train, CJ?
Checked it out on the map, its very very remote. Glad it still runs
This is pretty cool even for a small town to still have a tram going.
The passenger they interviewed is a lil cutie.
I think that when POWs hs gone back to German - tramtracks never changed from that times.
Mark Kraftz Ofcourse. Those small towns are piss poor. Outside Moscow and Petersburg life is the same as in soviet times. Dull and depressing
If tracks fail completely then tram lines are shut down. Happened in bigger cities already.
Actually, you are right in a sort. The town on a steady decline from the peak of 25 000 citizens in the late 1950 to 8 885 nowadays. The German POWs and the mines and factory they worked in was the only reason it grown this size to begin with.
Did they make sure to only show one person on the tram at a time?
Very cool
Wish my town still had a tram or trolley as they're called here,nice to see.
What a happy little tram! It reminds me of Toby from Thomas the Tank Engine. :-)
They never mention how small the town is.
It has over 10,000 residents. I live in Linville, Queensland. Wiki says 431 population. Bullshit, it's more like 60 people, no kidding.
@@lukespread Change it, then.
0:15 I'm not so sure...
i like depressive places like this town
HOW is the tram not a modified Lada?
Not even small towns in Germany have even a tram, what is really sad, because the politics doesn't allow this effort, also the demand is really low. Our smallest tram route is located in a State Saxony-Anhalt in the City Naumburg, where (like in the smallest Russian town) trams from the 60s to the 70s driving their daily route.
That town looks like depression on a whole new level.
I love It! Old school all the way. If there was transportation like that where I live I will use it very often. I wonder how many times each shift the driver drives this route and how long is a complete route. Time wise and kilometres.
8 km, 23-28 min route time (depend on the destination, 1-way), 1 or 2 cars.
City of Woltschansk
Föderationskreis Ural
Oblast Swerdlowsk
Stadtkreis Woltschansk
Bürgermeister Alexander Burgardt
Erste Erwähnung 18. Jahrhundert
Stadt seit 1956
Fläche 63 km²
Bevölkerung 10.010 Einwohner
(Stand: 14. Okt. 2010)[1]
Bevölkerungsdichte 159 Einwohner/km²
Höhe des Zentrums 240 m
Zeitzone UTC+5
Telefonvorwahl (+7) 34383
Postleitzahl 624940, 624941
Kfz-Kennzeichen 66, 96, 196
OKATO 65 445 503
Geographische Lage
Koordinaten ♁59° 56′ N, 60° 3′ O
That's near where they murdered the Tsar, right?
I love trams they are confortable
reminds me of spirited away
Firstname Lastname true
Firstname Lastname says:
"reminds me of spirited away"
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Except that it doesn't run on the water.
The Little Tram That Could.
Looks very bumpy
It's just like riding dick.
0:43 - The German POW's sure did a hell of a job on those tracks. Dear god; I wouldn't be surprised if the tram derails someday.
0:50 His voice is so smooth 😍
Bad video description, there is no town name in title and video text. Only in video minute 0:50.
It seems to be Volchansk.
town name is visible in video you little shit
afe31 ya
David Eranosian you are shit. i said in my comment its visible in video.
LOL is there any meter of rail which is straight on that line? :D
I like this town very much.
I love this sound on the clip ^^
Мэр двух слов связать не может. Показательно.
Ты не думал, что он не привык выступать перед прессой . Он волновался
Публичный человек боится публичности. Что-то здесь не так.
Dima Leoniv население меньше 10 тысяч. У него интервью, наверное, никогда не брали раньше. Оператор мог бы и переснять разок дубль, если бы ему пофиг не было. Вот лишь бы докопаться до мелочи.
Nick Coffeemaniac забавное оправдание) сам то веришь в то что написал?)
Что это за город?
That town looks depressing.
And my fucking city doesn't have one
This town looks depressing...but the girls look nice
I travel there once and travel this tram. :D
This place is really up and coming!!
When I saw the thumbnail I thought this was gonna be an initial d meme
That is a cutest little town omg.
0:32 not bad at all she could keep me warm in the Russian cold😲👍💯
So cute and old i would love to drive those small trams 😍
Even the rail line looks depressed and sad
0:44 the tracks bended AF
Whys it called a tram instead of train?
she was beautiful.
👍😎🍷 Priceless. Should be renewed with new Rails & Waggons.......
Russia leading the way in small-town public transport' I would love to visit and ride that tram.
What is the town called?
Volchansk
What is the music
0:16
She looks fuckin thrilled
Really? I always see that face on people who are going to work on Mondays.
Russians don't often smile in public it's just how they are.
So create a Guinness Record for that, as if every record exist before
Would like to know what is meant by "theft"... does that mean theft aboard the trams, or theft in the operations department?
Wiorse: thefts- poor people or drunkards that can steal the wires or even rails (or parts of cars in the depot) and sell it as scrap metal ((
The city is Volchansk: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woltschansk
It is still working ?
Yeah
I liked the music... What is the name of track...
What is it with all the highlighted words in each sentence.
What's the name of this Town?
Edit: Nevermind it's Volchansk.
You guys have trams?
What are POW's?
Prisoners Of War
what is this music we need hardbass
Lovely tram, needs some track work though.
Fold older or handicapped people trams are one blessing so its fine no matter how small the town is!
Niezły sprzęcik...
0:42 could still get in guiness book with the worst rails in use.
Music name?
That town looked peaceful.
0:42 look at the track.