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Couch Road

In 1763–1764 at the Kolyvanovo-Voskresensk plants in Altai, the mining engineer K.D. Frolov designed the first sleeper road in Russia. It consisted of wooden scaffolding, sleepers, and carts — "dogs" — moved by a water wheel drive.

The First Rails

P.K. Frolov, the son of a mining engineer, improved his father's design and in 1806–1809 built the first domestic horse-drawn rail road at the Zmeinogorsk mine, 1,867 m long. Carts moved much faster on it. The first rails were wooden, and the muscular power of animals was used as traction. One horse could carry the same load on a horse-rail road that 25 animals could barely move on a dirt road.

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1763–1764 In 1763–1764, at the Kolyvanovo-Voskresensk plants in Altai, the mining engineer K. D. Frolov designed the first sleeper road in Russia. It consisted of wooden scaffolds, sleepers, and "dogs" — carts that were driven by a water wheel.
1806–1809 P. K. Frolov, the engineer's son, improved his father's design and in 1806–1809 built the first domestic horse-drawn rail road, 1,867 meters long, at the Zmeinogorsk mine. One horse could carry a load that 25 horses could barely move on a dirt road.

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