The small electric locomotive of ex Finlayson Forssa Factory built by Siemens-Schuckert Werke in Germany has been this week the star of the RATA 2014 seminar of Finnish Transport Agency in Turku. The locomotive was loaded ontop of a truck at Minkiö on Sunday 19.1. and transported to Logomo conference center in Turku. It was the first time the locomotive was travelling on a road! In Logomo the locomotive was unloaded and then moved on top of small track panels in to the Logomo building in the middle of a stage with a not so swift manouver that took several hours.
Forssa electric railway was an electric railway built for internal traffic of Forssa factories and owned by Forssa-yhtiö (Forssa Comppany), later since 1934 Finlayson Oy. The railway was of a 750 mm narrow gauge and had a direct connection with Jokioinen Railway. The voltage of the overhead wire was 500 volts DC.
The railway had total of two electric locomotives. Operation of electric locomotives ended up already in 1973 when a lightning had ben damaging the newer of the two locomotives.
Both of the locomotives are preserved. The older one, Orenstein & Koppel locomotive (1898, 0-4-0sm) is cosmetically restored and painted yellow. It is on display in a glass box in the front of Forssa Library. The newer one which was damaged by lightning in 1973 (Siemens-Schuckert 1647/1922, 0-4-0sm) is at Jokioinen Museum Railway and this week on display at the RATA 2014 seminar.