Thanks to railway tourism, thanks to the lively Soviet steam locomotives, the forgotten Karelian town of Sortavala has turned into a tourist center, which is now known to almost all of Russia. This once again proves that the preservation and restoration of historical rolling stock can revive dying regions. But the authorities of Sortavala have not yet realized their new status, continuing to remain an ordinary Russian town with bad roads, with squalid courtyards, with unnecessary fences, with snotty wires, with uncomfortable morally outdated PAZ buses and with other urban ailments characteristic of Russia.
In the same time the town of Sortavala has become home to live steam locomotives, which travel here every day with tourist trains, attracting more and more people to the history of railways, and, of course, railway photographers like me and my friends.
In this video: hot steam locomotives and a chic diesel locomotive TEP60, sad urbanism and chic historical architecture of Sortavala, the magical nature of Karelia, and also many adventures. We hid in a concrete shelter, jumped over fences, chased ducks and walked two kilometers along a broken road, which taxi drivers refused to go on.

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Episodes:
00:00 Greeting
02:21 Karelia steam locomotives
05:01 Diesel locomotive TEP60-0904
06:17 Opinion about Sortavala - Helyulya section
07:15 Nature and a bit of landscaping
09:56 PAZ Vector Next bus
11:53 Sortavala town and its fences
13:53 Sights of Sortavala
16:10 Otava bus
17:54 Historical architecture of Sortavala
22:03 Review of the Valaam pier
23:42 Review of the Ladoga seal train
31:37 Steam locomotive L-5164 with the Ruskeala Express
32:30 Outskirts of Sortavala and a review of ducks
36:25 Runaway freight train
37:05 Steam locomotive L-1344 with the Ruskeala Express
38:42 Suburban train RA3-083
39:09 Steam locomotive Ov-324
40:09 Emergency meeting: where to photograph the blue "Mashka"?!
42:01 Attempt to photograph two non-tourist trains
43:38 2TE116-1406 with a freight train
45:10 We walk back to Sortavala. Review of the suburbs of Sortavala.
48:10 Bus PAZ-4234
50:42 Steam locomotive Er, TEP60-0904, blue "Mashka" and spires.
52:17 Locomotive Paradise
52:53 Ending

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