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Survival Horror: 14 Hours On a Russian Platzkart with Food Poisoning

by Wade Meredith on December 21st, 2006

Platzkart - The infamous Russian third-class railway carriage.

Our Hero - “I was about to start a17-hour Platzkart Hell journey back to Moscow, and this was the kicker: I was suffering from brutal food poisoning that I’d picked up in a platzkart on the way out to Izhevsk. I was shivering, every muscle in my body ached, and my guts were cramping with unbearable pain.”

Synopsis - It makes a 14-hour economy flight look like a weekend in the presidential suite of a Four Seasons resort. Russians fear and despise platzkart. They avoid it like the plague if they can. But for most Russians, struggling to get by in an increasingly expensive country, platzkart is the only feasible way to travel, especially over long distances. And if Russia is anything, it’s long distances. The reason they choose platzkart, of course, is because it’s cheap. A $50 ticket can get you all the way from Moscow to Vladivostok. That’s $50 for a week of travel… [If you live through it.]

The tale of woe that follows this set-up, is disgusting and entertaining. Click through for the whole ordeal and more pics.

Surviving the Train - The Russian Truth (Contains sporadic “colorful” language. Not that I blame him…)

Further Platzkart Reading:

The Train To Chebox - Cheboksarv

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