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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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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. The exhibit consists mostly of locomotives, passenger and freight cars, tractors, skidders, forestry vehicles and machines.[3][4]

Museum's collection

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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