Posted Jul 23, 2006 at 04:44PM by Karl B. Listed in: News Tags: Doom Patrol, Grant Morrison, Lyublinskaya
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Here are some cool-looking pictures of Russian subway tunnels. I think most of these are for trolleys and the like. These were taken, I believe, in the Lyublinskaya line of the Moscow metro. Maybe you guys from Russia can tell me if this is right or not. Anyway, the Lyublinskaya line was plagued by a barrage of near-constant financial problems, and so a lot of the construction sites for the line were abandoned. The condition of these tunnels have really deteriorated, but in my opinion it adds to the textures and atmosphere of the pictures.


Some of these pics remind me of a Doom Patrol story I read before: the one where Cliff goes into the underground railway system connecting Crazy Jane's personalities together. These derelict tunnels also bring to mind Grant Morrison's first Doom Patrol story arc. In the beginning of the Orqwith story, this one guy gets on the subway and ends up in a station made of bone. It's obvious that these pictures right here are of ordinary, run-of-the-mill, man-made tunnels, but it doesn't take that much of an imagination to turn all those metal girders and stuff into something horrific in your mind.


Brrr, I'm giving me the creeps.

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UPDATE: One of our eagle-eyed readers, Melanor9, pointed out that these pictures seem more to be of the underground Military Command Center in Ramenki in southwestern Moscow -- also dubbed as Metro2 -- instead of Lyublinskaya. He says that even though the construction style is a lot like the common metro, "we don't have abandoned civilian lines at the moment (oil prices helps, yknow)." Kudos to Melanor9 for the heads up!

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