The volunteers of Jokioinen Museum Railway are preparing the new traffic season by cleaning up station areas and maintaining locomotives. In warm easter weekend two of the steam locomotives were woken up from their winter sleep. Former Loviisa-Vesijärvi Railway number 6 and Jokioinen railway number 4 were warmed up to the full pressure for some test runs.
Minkiö station garden was also made up during easter. The platforms and lawns were cleaned up from the fallen leaves. Also couple of rotten trees were fallen.
During a long weekend also some track maintenance has been made, because a crossing of track and private road in Palomäki was renoved by replacing the cover planks.
The first charter trains will run before mid-May. The scheduled traffic season starts on Sunday June 5 with 40th anniversary celebration of museum railway. The second highling of the season is Minkiö Steam Festival in last weekend of July.