Drezyniarz 2022, Poland
In June 2022 we had the great opportunity to make a train trip from Poznan to Czarnków with a steam train. And no, we're not going to talk about how beautiful that train was (
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Wire broadcasting / radio distribution in 2022
We had a speaker and switch from the Radio Distribution for a while. What is that Radio Distribution? This system (also called wire broadcasting) was a radio system that ran via a cable. So not through...
Old bicycle shed Meppel
Tot medio 2010 stond er bij station Meppel nog de oude fietsenstalling die daarna gesloopt is. Op donderdag 2 December 2010 werd de nieuwe stalling geopend. De nieuwe fietsenstalling zal zeker efficiënter zijn geworden,...
Straw cardboard factory The Future Scheemda
The old strawboard factories De Toekomst I and II are located along the A7 near Scheemda (NL). Both were built around 1900 and were used to make strawboard until 1968. And after 1968…. came...
Demolition Market Halls Meppel
The market halls in Meppel (NL) were a household name for years. The animal market, the bird and the flea markets and so on. But in recent years there was no more maintenance and the halls were doomed…
IFA Museum Nordhausen
The IFA (Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau) existed in the former GDR. That was the umbrella organization of the East German motorcycle and car industry. Under the name IFA, passenger cars, trucks, agricultural vehicles as well as motorcycles and (moped) bicycles were produced in the GDR. And it was primarily in Nordhausen that agricultural vehicles were made.
A Russian army base in former East Germany
In the former East Germany there are still some old army bases ... In this case, it concerns the abandoned army base "Heeresversuchsanstalt Hillersleben", which was built in 1935. Entire villages ...
Railway gun Krupp K5
In the north of France, in the town of Audinghen, there is a museum that manages the bunker “Todt”. The bunker itself is already a solid appearance ... but the cannon that stands next to it ... that was what mattered to us ... A Krupp K5 cannon, made between 1937 and 1940. It fired a 255 kilo grenade over a distance of almost 70 km. The gun weighs 120 tons and is 32 meters long.
Emsland Moor / Peat Museum
In the middle of what was once Europe's largest high peat area, the Bourtanger Moor / Bourtanger Marsh, the Emsland Moor (peat) Museum is located in the immediate vicinity of the Dutch border. This peat area is huge ....
Park of Military History Pivka Slovenie
Very little of the Yugoslavia war can be found in terms of museums. There are some points of commemoration, but history still seems so fresh and complicated that when it comes ...
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