Музей Амурского моста, Railway bridge museum in Khabarovsk, Russia.
The Amur Bridge Museum preserves a large steel truss section from the original structure that weighs roughly 1,100 tons and rises to about 30 meters. The complex displays preserved locomotives and a reconstructed station building that copies the appearance of the 1897 railway station.
The bridge span dates from 1916 and was built to the design of engineer and professor L. D. Proskuryakov. During the bridge's reconstruction one complete 127-metre, 1,100-tonne truss was kept and moved to the right bank of the Amur. In August 2008 the Khabarovsk bridge crew of OAO Dalmоstroy turned it 90 degrees on 180-tonne hydraulic jacks, about 10 metres a day over three weeks, and it became the museum's first exhibit.
The museum celebrates the engineering achievement that connected Russia's Pacific regions by rail. Visitors walking around the preserved steel section can feel the scale of this technical accomplishment and understand its role in opening up the Far East.
The museum sits alongside the current bridge and is easy to reach on foot, with good views of the river and surrounding area. It is best visited on a clear day so you can see the large steel structures and details in full light.
The oldest exhibit is a two-axle tank car from the late 19th century, found in a forest near Khabarovsk in September 2010 and restored; only four such cars survive, the others in Saint Petersburg, Rostov, at the Altai wagon works and at Gorky-Moskovsky depot. The railcar AS of 1935, built at the Kaluga works in only six examples, served commander Vasily Blyukher.
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