Magazines and railways

The oldest magazines for ammunition and gun powder, were made in the end of 1800'ies using stones and bricks. Vallisaari. (1983)

A entrance to the tunnel-type store in Santahamina. (1984)

Mine magazines on the small island of Lonna. On the background: Main islands of Sveaborg, knowing today as the museum fortress of Suomenlinna. (1998)

There were roads and narrow gauged railway from the quay to batteries and magazines. In the picture: Standard type Russian locomotive for narrow gauged tracks.

A narrow gauged track and the switch in the island of Melkki. (1984)

 

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