Rail transport in the Soviet Union the Soviet Union collapsed. Twenty other stations were under construction in 1985. The country's rapid transit system was the most intensively used in the world. The Soviet Union was a pioneer in the development of the diesel locomotive to replace the steam locomotive (dieselization) on non-electrified lines. But the USSR failed to make steady progress and while they lead the United States at first, they soon fell behind and their last steam locomotives were retired about 15 years later than for the US. The first mainline diesel locomotive in the world began running in 1924 in the USSR but it
How the Stalos were Tricked How the Stalos were Tricked How the Stalos were Tricked is a Lapp fairy tale collected by J. C. Poestion in "Lapplandische Märchen". Andrew Lang included it in "The Orange Fairy Book". A boy saw a giant man in the woods, and his mother identified it as a Stalo, a man-eater. Soon after, Patto's children began to vanish. One day, a boy told him how he had seen his youngest daughter caught in the Stalo's trap and drowned. Patto went to the trap and made it catch him without drowning him. The Stalo carried him off. Patto stole his ax,