For high speeds (1976)

High-speed electric train on the way.

Jet plane takes off.

Hydrofoil vessel goes along the Neva.

Cars on the city highway.

High-speed electric train passes.

Views of part of Red Square, 50th Anniversary of October Square, Kalininsky Prospekt in Moscow.

Entrance to the All-Russian Research Institute of Railway Transport of the Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Railways.

Employees of one of the laboratories of the institute at work.

View of part of the laboratory.

Doctor of Technical Sciences V.G. Inozemtsev speaks about the tasks facing scientists in the transport industry, increasing the speed of all types of transport (synchronously).

View of part of the Kirov Plant.

A train with K-700 tractors on platforms passes.

High-speed electric train on the way.

Panorama and views of the composition of the ER-200 high-speed electric train.

The driver and his assistant enter the locomotive cabin.

The driver at the control panel.

View of the railway track.

Landscape outside the window of the high-speed train.

The driver in the locomotive cabin.

The train is moving at high speed, passing under a bridge.

Interior view of a saloon car.

Swivel seats in a saloon car.

Lighting in a saloon car.

The engineer in the cab.

The speed indicator on the dashboard.

Landscape outside the carriage window.

An employee of the All-Russian Research Institute of Railway Transport in the engineer's cab during a test run.

The duty officer at the Babino station takes a request from the engineer about the availability of a free section, reports a free section (synchronously).

The train is en route.

View of the experimental track machine station No. 1. Laying the track bed for high-speed trains.

The laying train in operation, laying new rails.

An oncoming freight train passes the laying train.

The process of laying a continuous welded track.

View of a part of the continuous welded track bed (from above).

Engineers and scientists discuss a project to modernize the switch system.

Part of the diagram of the new switch.

The dispatcher at the switch switching console.

Operation of a frog with a movable core on a new turnout.

Experimental work on a new turnout.

Testers in a car compartment take readings from instruments.

The process of changing a turnout.

The train passes the turnout without reducing speed.

Testers in a compartment take readings from control instruments.

The ER-200 high-speed train on the way.

Wheels of cars passing the turnout.

Assembly of wheel pairs with a new braking system for rolling stock.

Operation of a conventional design with brake shoes.

A passenger train passes.

Actions of the driver when braking with the new system.

View of the disc brakes of a wheel pair.

Operation of a magnetic rail brake.

View of the new air distributor of the brake system.

Braking train.

Employees of the Central Research Institute of MPS conduct an experiment in the laboratory with an automatic traffic light in the driver's cab.

Signals illuminating on the traffic light.

Traffic light installed in the driver's cab.

Controls of a high-speed train.

Interior views of one of the traction substations on the Moscow-Leningrad line, substation instruments and equipment.

Views of the contact traction network on the railway line.

View of a special fence erected along the entire length of the high-speed line.

View of part of the settlement located behind the fence.

Children pick flowers near the fence.

The station attendant goes to the platform.

Passengers on the platform, the train passes the station.

Motor transport moves along the overpass above the high-speed line.

Passengers descend the stairs to the platform.

The train passes under the overpass, cars on the overpass.

View of part of the overpass.

A high-speed train during tests at the Belorechensk-Maikop test site of the North Caucasian Railway.

The driver in the locomotive cab.

Testers in the saloon car monitor the readings of the control devices during the study of the interaction of the track and the rolling stock.

One of the high-speed trains goes along the Oktyabrskaya Mainline.

Newsreel from 1958: view of Moscow Station in Leningrad.

Train at the platform.

Train crew before departure.

High-speed trains on the way.

Participants in a seminar held by the Research Institute for High-Speed Problems climb the stairs to the assembly hall.

Registration of seminar participants.

Views of the seminar hall, faces of the seminar participants.

High-speed train ER-200 on the way.

View of the Moscow Station building.

Views and panorama of the high-speed express RT-200. View of the locomotive ChS-200. Interior view of the driver's cab, train controls.

Technicians check the technical condition of the wheel sets.

Technician V. Beranik talks about the manufacture of the first two high-speed experimental electric locomotives for the USSR in Czechoslovakia, about testing the locomotives and the prospects for their operation (synchronously).

Czechoslovak specialists check the electrical equipment of one of the locomotives.

Operation of the air spring suspension system.

Interior view of the saloon car.

Electric train RT-200 during performance tests.

Test driver in the locomotive cabin.

Operation of control devices, types of railway track.

Testers in the saloon car and cabin.

Taking readings from control devices.

Determining the impact of vibrations and noise on the human body at high speed in laboratory conditions.

Test subject with sensors connected to the body and head.

Operation of the recorder.

High-speed train RT-200 during performance tests.

Interior view of the waiting room of the Moscow railway station.

Passengers are going to board.

Passengers take their seats in the saloon car.

View of part of the high-speed train during boarding of passengers.

Train controls.

Those seeing off wave goodbye.

The train departs for Moscow.

Passengers in the saloon car read newspapers and play chess while traveling.

A barmaid pours coffee for passengers in the train buffet, the barmaid's face.

Passengers in the saloon car.

Landscapes outside the car window.

Oncoming freight trains pass.

High-speed trains on the way.