despite fierce shelling, thanks to the courage and self-sacrifice of the employees of the oktyabrskaya railwayass 25 trains of russian railway transport in one day in one direction. petersburg. 67 samples of the railway equipment from different countries and eras from the russian empire and the soviet union to the united states of america and western europe, among them are several steam locomotives that worked on the fronts of the great patriotic war, including the legendary steam locomotives of the series, e, which delivered goods to leningrad along the victory road. during the war, a large part of the cargo was transported on steam locomotives in series. e. released for the first time in 1912, this steam locomotive worked flawlessly on our railways for more than half a century. the peculiarity of this steam locomotive was that it was unpretentious in fuel, it was possible to drown it literally with all fuel oil, firewood, coal, peat at the beginning of the war, a situation developed when the donetsk coal basin fell into the hands of the enemy, and , accordingly, the quality of coal dropped s