Korean luggage (the compartments were already full with luggage) and Styrian apples stored in the washing room of ZC (Zoesen Chelto, railway of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea) sleeping car 
Moskva - Pyongyang (via Chasan - Tumangan).
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This sleeping car is attached to train no. 2 (Moskva - Vladivostok) twice monthly - on the 11th and 25th. According to the conductors it was 
built in 1983 in the DPRK. I went in this sleeping car from Moskva to Usole-Sibirskoe. As it can only be used with tickets for a cross-border trip, I used a 
City-Star ticket Devinska Nova Ves - Ussuriisk (issued in Slovakia), an additional ticket Ussuriisk - Tumangan and a reservation 
Moskva - Tumangan (both issued in Russia). In the car I was the only passenger with other (Austrian) than DPRK citizenship...
See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1wMqNCeG0w
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2006-12-28
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Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at