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Railroad Flag

[Russian Railroad flag]
by António Martins, 14 Dec 1997

This one Iʼve seen only once, flown from the rooftop pole of the main railway station building, in Kanas^, Chuvashia, in 1997.08.10. It consists of a “white ensign” like plain white field with the russian flag in the upper hoist and the railway logo gold in the lower fly. Iʼve never seen this flag in any other railway permises in Russia before (but maybe it is flown only on sunny Sundays...) nor it is known by the general population. Russian railways are administered by the Transports Ministery (M.P.S. — Ministerstvo Putei~ Soobxenii~), along with every kind of roads and motorways, inland waterways (rivers and canals), civil navigation and civil aviation. This flag stands for the train (poezd) branch of that huge Ministery.
António Martins, 14 Dec 1997

I saw this Russian Railroad (Rossiskyi~ Z^eleznyi~ Dorogiq) flag again, also on a sunday — this time in Moscow, hoisted in a large facility at Komsomol square, where three major railw