Sharya Forest Museum Railway

Sharya Forest Museum Railway
Overview
Type Narrow gauge railway
Locale Kostroma Oblast, Russia
Termini Sharya
Operation
Opened 2014
Operator(s) Sharya Forest Museum
Technical
Line length 2 kilometres (1.2 mi)
Track gauge 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Route map

Coordinates: 58°22′57″N 45°29′39″E / 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]

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, and 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 and important for Russian railway history vehicles and forestry history vehicles, including:

Locomotives and draisines

Railway cars

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sharya Forest Museum Railway, opened in 2014 (Russian)
  2. ↑ Sharya Forest Museum, 2014 (Russian)
  3. ↑ Sharya Forest Museum, 2015 (Russian)
  4. ↑ Sharya Forest Museum, 2015 (Russian)
  5. ↑ TU8-0167 with passenger train in the Sharya Park
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