{"id":5595,"date":"2023-03-29T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photold.org\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2023-03-29T22:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T22:00:28","slug":"czechoslovak-railroad-workers-defrosting-railroad-tracks-using-a-mig-15-engine-during-a-severe-snowstorm-in-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/2023\/03\/29\/czechoslovak-railroad-workers-defrosting-railroad-tracks-using-a-mig-15-engine-during-a-severe-snowstorm-in-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Czechoslovak railroad workers defrosting railroad tracks using a MiG-15 engine during a severe snowstorm in 1970."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>It\u2019s a scene out of an action movie \u2013 Czechoslovak railroad workers in a snowstorm, using a MiG-15 jet engine to defrost the railroad tracks! This is what happened in 1970 when a severe snowstorm struck the country and the railway tracks had to be cleared quickly. The workers ingeniously used the engine of a MiG-15 fighter plane to quickly thaw the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Although the MiG-15 was an important part of the Soviet air force, its engine proved to be a useful tool for the desperate railroad workers. Thanks to their resourcefulness, the tracks were cleared in no time and the trains were able to resume their journeys.<\/p>\n<p>This story is a testament to the ingenuity of the human spirit in the face of adversity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-34.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5596\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-34.jpg?resize=720%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"image-34-jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-34.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-34.jpg?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-34.jpg?resize=720%2C720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-34.jpg?resize=61%2C60&amp;ssl=1 61w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a scene out of an action movie \u2013 Czechoslovak railroad workers in a snowstorm, using a MiG-15 jet engine to defrost the railroad tracks! This is what happened in 1970 when a severe snowstorm struck the country and the railway tracks had to be cleared quickly. The workers ingeniously used the engine of a MiG-15 fighter plane to quickly thaw the tracks. Although the MiG-15 was an important part of the Soviet air force, its engine proved to be a useful tool for the desperate railroad workers. Thanks to their resourcefulness, the tracks were cleared in no time and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/2023\/03\/29\/czechoslovak-railroad-workers-defrosting-railroad-tracks-using-a-mig-15-engine-during-a-severe-snowstorm-in-1970\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Czechoslovak railroad workers defrosting railroad tracks using a MiG-15 engine during a severe snowstorm in 1970.<\/span> r\u00e9szletei&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[117,2390,2392,2397,2396,2391,2394,2393,2395,2398,1970],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-photo","tag-117","tag-czechoslovak","tag-czechoslovakia","tag-human","tag-ingenuity","tag-mig-15","tag-mig15","tag-railway","tag-snowstorm","tag-spirit","tag-universal","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5597,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/5597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}