Railroad Bomb Shelter

 The bomb shelter used as an underground control point of the marshaling yard.

 

We get inside through an emergency exit.

The bomb shelter was recently renovated just a couple of years ago. The next compartment looks like a kind of crossroads, where you can get to the main part of the shelter, the emergency exit, the diesel generators, the battery room with storage compartments, and the ventilation system. By the way, there is a gross violation of the paint job on the doors: the rubber strips on them have been painted over, which is not allowed, since that would compromise their hermetic properties.

The corridor. For some reason, the workers were too lazy to take the film off the doors after the renovation.

From there to the battery room.

Clean and fresh.

Behind the doors next to the battery room there are spare batteries and sulfuric acid for them.

The compartment ventilation system.

We'll leave the generators for later.

We enter the central part of the shelter. It is curved at an obtuse angle, with various rooms on the sides.

There is an exit for the workers and a toilet, along with a water supply.

The main filter ventilation unit.

Back to the generators.

Double power.

Oil in yellow tanks.

Tanks for diesel are behind another hermetic door. It is fed to the generators through pipes hidden under the raised floor. There are cables underneath.

More angles.

Why would such a small bomb shelter need two diesel generators? The fact is that this shelter is a railroad control center. The tracks above can be controlled from here. The generators are there to power all those crackling relays.

Until we meet again!