Yekaterinburg: A russian city with new intercity tramline, German buses and horrible courtyards. 

On February 11, 2023, Bus Master and I flew to Yekaterinburg with big plans: we had to catch the Ural Express tourist train with the ChS2 electric locomotive, and then with the steam locomotive. Next - ride in retro Mercedes O305 buses from Germany, test the new intercity tram line and, if possible, see something else interesting. As an add-on, we looked at a makeshift museum of Soviet locomotives near the Yekaterinburg locomotive depot, and also saw a terrible yard. In the presence of such terrible yards in Russia, our television tells us, Russians, how bad it is in Europe...
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Episodes:
00:00 Terrible landscaping
01:21 Bus Mercedes O305
03:06 Welcome
04:04 Train "Ural Express" with a locomotive Skoda ChS2
05:17 Secret Locomotive Museum
07:12 Sad housing estate and dangerous sidewalk
08:08 Yard after the bombing?
09:14 Some public transport
09:48 Riding the Mercedes O305 bus
11:13 A trip in a ZIU-683 trolleybus, 1987
12:52 Train "Ural Express" with steam locomotive L
13:57 History of steam locomotives L
14:42 Tram line to Verkhnyaya Pyshma
15:38 Tram "Lionet"
16:10 Verkhnepyshminsky tram company
16:38 What is the main thing in the city?
17:32 Architecture minute
18:13 Ride in the tram "Lion"
18:58 Our impressions
19:24 Announcement of the old video
19:52 Prize card
20:12 Abrosimov's rating of cities