Russia October 2001
In October 2001 I went to northern Russia to look at a platinum and palladium (and chromite) project near the city of Petrozavodsk. Initially I was in Moscow at the Company offices for meetings. One good thing was that my hotel was next door to the Moscow-Kiev railway station. One bad thing was that I was so jet-lagged (12 hour time change between West Coast Canada and Moscow) that I was falling into bed by 5pm for the first few days I was there so no chance to railfan as during the day I was in meetings. Finally after I was able to acclimatize somewhat I popped over to the station to have a look. I was a bit nervous as this was shortly after 9/11 so I was not sure how the Russians would take a guy wandering around taking pictures in a train station. I memorized "I am a Canadian tourist" in Russian prior to going on the trip "just in case". Fortunately no one cared that I was there so I wandered the platforms taking photos of the pas...