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Sharya Forest Museum Railway

Sharya Forest Museum Railway

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58.382534°N 45.494091°E / 58.382534; 45.494091 The Sharya Forest Museum Railway (Russian: Узкоколейная железная дорога Шарьинского музея леса) is a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in)-gauge forest railway based at open-air Sharya Forest Museum located in Sharya, opened in 2014.[1]

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Current status

The Sharya Forest Museum Railway is a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) narrow gauge railroad loop passing through the Sharya Park in Kostroma Oblast.[2] The museum railway was opened in 2014. It has a total length of 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) and is operational as of 2016.

Railway track in 2023

Operation of railway did not started, due to lack of personnel and place for refueling of locomotive. The exhibit consists mostly of locomotives, passenger and freight cars, tractors, skidders, forestry vehicles and machines.[3][4]

Museum's collection

Train (2023)

The museum owns many interesting vehicles, which are important for the Russian railway and forestry history including:

Locomotives and draisines

Railway cars

Aeronautical engineering

  • Plane aircraft protection — An-2 (RA-29327)

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Sharya Forest Museum Railway, opened in 2014 (in Russian)
  2. [2]
    Sharya Forest Museum, 2014 (in Russian)
  3. [3]
    Sharya Forest Museum, 2015 Archived 2016-10-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  4. [4]
    Sharya Forest Museum, 2015 (in Russian)
  5. [5]
    TU8-0167 with passenger train in the Sharya Park
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