Talas North Terminal
seedling · planted 2025-09 · tended 2025-09
West of Aulie-Ata the Kara-Buura line runs 145 kilometres to Talas North Terminal on the Kazakh frontier. The exchange of freight is from 08:00 to 20:00, no night work. The terminal is quiet, with a customs shed, a low yard and a long fence, and one old locomotive painted green that the border guards let the children sit in on Sundays.
A thing I was told and have not checked: that the terminal's cat is older than the terminal.
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Bolot, I can confirm the cat. My cousin works at the customs shed. The cat is called Starshiy, "the senior", and has a bed in the stationmaster's drawer.
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