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| The pedestrian overpass is a short cut to the train station in Ulan Ude. |
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| Cargo trains full of different grades of coal. |
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| An old steam engine on display. |
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| Check out the guy in the colorful shorts. Even though it's about 2 degrees C outside, it's 23 degrees inside the train, so many guys change into shorts for the ride. |
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| Lots of people sleep in on the long train rides. This was an overnighter. |
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| I love the window seats. |
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| Lake Baikal, the deepest fresh water lake in the world. |
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| Russian friend Erdem who is proud of his Buryat culture, and Servieta and her boyfriend Daniel. Servieta laughed to learn that her name means "napkin" in Spanish and German. |
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| Freight train, freight train, coming round the bend. |
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| Nice to be in the warm train looking outside at the snow. |
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| The woman on the left was an English teacher for many years. The other woman worked on the trains for over 30 years before retiring. She said her pension is $241 a month which is enough to live on if she doesn't waste her money. |
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| With Erdem and Servieta, who were kind enough to share their food with me since I hadn't packed any. Erdem, a proud Buryat (who have their roots in Mongolia), said Lake Baikal belongs to the Buryats. |
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