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Cold War Rail Ferry in Miniature | Maritime Innovation in Miniature Series 2

For more ship models in the Maritime Innovation in Miniature Series, click here: https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats... This is a model of a rail freight ferry built in the German Democratic Republic in the late 1980s, at the height of the Cold War. Known as TYPE EGF-321 these were the largest ships built in the GDR and the largest railway ferries in the world. The word Eisenbahngüterfähre with its abbreviation EGF means ‘railway goods ferry’. Today we are familiar with roll-n-roll off ferries, but the concept actually started with train ferries in the 1830s, well before motor vehicles even existed. The first rail ferries in the 1830s were simple open barges to cross non-tidal rivers, or canals. By the 1980s they had reached the peak of engineering innovation. Russia was East Germany’s most important trading partner. Rail and passenger links between the two countries had reached capacity by the late 1970s and political unrest in Poland meant that an overland route was unsustainable. In June 1982, the Joint Government Commission of the USSR and the GDR agreed to set up a rail freight ferry line between the two countries from Mukran in Germany to Klaipeda in Lithuania. This was a major commitment: more than five million tons of goods were to be transported annually: up to 30 percent of all freight traffic between Russia and East Germany. Six ferries of this type were to be built at the Mathias-Thesen shipyard in Wismar; three for the GDR and three for Russia although five were only completed, two for East Germany and three for Russia. Ship model courtesy of the ‪@IMOHQ‬ #IMO #Internationalmaritimeorganization #EGF #railwaygoodsferry #goodsferry #ferry #coldwar #railfreightferry #maritime #history #historylovers #scalemodel #scalemodelling #scalemodel #shipmodel #maritimehistory #shiphistory #shipmodeling #trending #Shiplovers #MaritimeModels #ShipReplica #HistoricShips