Trains - Russia

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A multi-track railroad in Russia

This photograph shows a train coming around the bend in the distance. Two men are standing alongside the railroad tracks. This picture was taken by the Mennonite medical service men who worked on the trains during World War I. This photograph can also be found in the book by Lawrence Klippenstein and Jacob Dick, Mennonite Alternative Service in Russia on page 82.

Alternative medical service men in Russia taking a break

Tis photograph shows a train stopped at an open field where a number of Alternative Medical Service men are standing, getting well deserved fresh air. There are mountains in the background. This photograph can also be seen in Mennonite Alternative Service in Russia by Lawrence Klippenstein and Jacob Dick, on page 79.

Disinfecting the trains

This photograph shows a long Medical Service train being disinfected with a pipe attached to each car, as described by the German note written on the reverse of the photograph. "This is a picture of the disinfection operation. Alongside the train you see a pipe, and from this main pipe smaller pipes extend upward to enter each car through the windows. The main pipe is connected to a generator from which it is directed into the cars. Eight cars are disinfected at a time. It takes about twenty minutes. The temperature forced into the cars ia about 60 degrees. The insects all perish." This picture also appears in the book Mennonite Alternative Service in Russia by Lawrence Klippenstein and Jacob Dick, on page 80 where it is identified as Medical Train No. 208 at Baku. This is the same photograph as number 686-85.

Familes traveling by freight train cars out of Russia

This is a copy of a photo showing families boarding a freight train car in preparation to leave Russia in the 1920s. About four families lived in one of these small freight cars for about two weeks en route to Riga, providing their own food along the way. Photograph in Gerhard Lohrenz, HERITAGE REMEMBERED: A Pictorial Survey of Mennonites in Prussia and Russia, revised and enlarged (Canadian Mennonite Bible College, 1977), 264.

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Sawatzkys - Schoenwiese Immigration Train

This is a photo of a group of men, women and children posed in front of a freight train ready for boarding. There are steps by the opening for easier boarding. Third person from left is Heinrich Sawatzky. The 11th person standing in front of the train is Heinrich Peter Harder. This is part of the Schoennwieser Group that left Russia for Canada in 1923.

The train carrying men in the Medical Service in World War I.

This photograph shows a long train making its way to Alexandropol along the mountainside on the shores of the sea. The train has been prepared for the transportation of the wounded. There is a Russian note on the reverse of the photograph possibly written by Abram Dick"Dear Family and Relatives, I am sending you a postcard of our train taken by me on the way from Tiflis to Alexandropol in the high mountains near a smelting factory. It is a beautiful area. I am, thank God, alive and well, which I wish you as well. There is nothing new to report. Best wishes to you, your loving son. Goodbye. I have not received a letter after No. 1." This picture also appears in the book Mennonite Alternative Service in Russia by Lawrence Klippenstein and Jacob Dick, on page 78.