Thomas and William Winans
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Thomas DeKay Winans and his brother, William Louis Winans, were 19th-century American engineers and entrepreneurs who amassed a fortune by constructing one of the era's largest industrial projects: th
Thomas Winans c. 1870s from a photo by Bachrach. Page 282.
Thomas de Kay Winans. Russian troika. 1847.
The bridge over the Msta river (watercolor, 1851)
Alexandroffsky estate in Baltimore
The Saint Petersburg to Moscow railway runs for 649.7 kilometers through four oblasts: Leningrad, Novgorod, Tver and Moscow. It is a major traffic artery in the north-west region of Russia, operated b
Thomas and William Winans
…1897), were 19th-century American engineers and entrepreneurs who amassed a fortune by constructing one of the era's largest industrial projects: the Moscow to St. Petersburg Railway (1843–1851), the longest rail line in the world up to that time. They were the sons of Baltimore railway pioneer Ross Winans. The brothers were icons…
The Sapsan high speed train on the way from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
Wood-burning locomotive on the Nikolaev railway, c. 1858
Leningradsky railway station (1851) in Moscow, the southern terminus of the line
New Verebinsky Bridge, opened in 2001 to replace the bypass