More scenes of taiga, more snow, more birches…
Snowy out of Irkutsk
More snowy scenes
Houses
Bundled up for the snow
More civilization further west
Wooden houses, painted shutters
Snow and trains
Another snowy view
The landscape gradually changed
Trees that aren’t birches!
More conifers
Houses
White birches, grey sky
Good thing I love birches…
And more birches
Evidence of people!
A big town
Arriving in a big city (Novosibirsk?)
Crossing the river
Another river view
Crossing the river
At the station
Station building
Other trains
Heading into more snow
Across the river…
River crossing
Mariinsk station
Some sun with the birches
Rare glimpse of blue sky
Forest going by
And more forest
Another station
Lots of snow
More snow in the Urals-Western Siberia
Half buried buildings
My kind compartment mate had her dad bring me some dried fruit
The Rossiya train
Front view of the Rossiya
All the laundry and garbage!
Enjoying my compartment
In my train compartment
Another station
Another river – approaching Nizhny Novgorod
trails untrod 