The Minkiö Steam Festival on Sunday 31st of July was a great success! Total of 1800 people visited the one day festival, which makes the festival the biggest selling event at Jokioinen Museum Railway. The steam festival was organized together with Kiipu village association and different steam and gasoline engine groups.
The stars of the festival were five old portable steam engines in operation. The engines were powering e.g. an old Sampo threshing machine (in picture above), a circular saw, a hay pole sharpening machine. I addition there were several running portable gasoline engines in operation.
The festival was also first day of operation in scheduled traffic for the newly renovated ex-Äänekoski-Suolahden railway 1901 H.K.Porter steam locomotive. The H.K. Porter pulled a special train for invited guests from Minkiö to Jokioinen and back. The locomotive had been presented to press the Monday before. All together there were four steam engines running and five on display on that day.