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Locomotive U-127
is a
4-6-0
steam locomotive
of
class U
, preserved at
the Museum of the Moscow Railway
next to
Paveletsky Rail Terminal
in Moscow. Built in 1910, the locomotive was badly damaged during the
Russian Civil War
but restored in May 1923. The following year it hauled head of state
Vladimir Lenin
's
funeral train
from Gerasimovskaya to Paveletsky station. For the next 13 years it continued in passenger service, until it was withdrawn in 1937, restored, and preserved.
Photograph:
Harveyqs
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