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On 23.9. ran the first diesel hauled charter train of this autumn. The train was pulled by an ex Hyvinkää-Karkkila railway Move21 diesel locomotive. The three carriage train with hot stoves carried a happy group from Minkiö to Humppila thourgh a beutiful autumn landscape. After the steam train season is over diesel locomotive hauled charter trains will run for charter groups until snow fall. Also hand trollies are for rent until winter takes it over and snow covers the landscape.
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Jokioinen Museum Railway season 2010 ended on a traditional autumn ride on Saturday September 18. Day started early in the afternoon, when traffic started with a single steam train. The evening ended with two train traffic between Jokioinen and Humppila. At nightfall the train and station areas were lit by electric lights, candles and some oil lamps.
The weather of the day was variable. Despite the weather, the trains were full of passengers since early afternoon until late evening. The last evening trains arrived Minkiö at 22.30 times. The traditional autumn ride fireworks in the late evening had to be cancelled because the rainy and foggy weather.
The next day Museum Railway Association volunteers began to prepare railway for the winter period. Steam locomotive boilers were cleaned, washed and drained of water, frost-sensitive equipment separated from locomotives and bare metal surfaces were protected against winter moisture by grease. Some of the passenger cars transported on Sunday to Humppila rolling stock garage. Also station areas were prepared for winter.
Although the traffic season is now over, the voluntary work of Museum Railway still continues. In autumn period, the volunteers work program includes track maintenance. During the coming winter season in the Minkiö warm workshop building is under construction, inter alia, Hyvinkää-Karkkila railway and Kuusankoski-Voikkaa railway passenger coaches, a steam locomotive HKR 5 and the diesel locomotive TU4.
View more images of weekend at image gallery.
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Approaching autumn has again brought the track work season to Jokioinen Museum Railway. On Tuesday morning a four car ballast train brought three full ballast hoppers from Humppila To Minkiö. Ballast is needed for the rebuilding of so called field tracks at Minkiö depot. This was also the first time the new ballast hoppers bought from Estonia were used.
In August a connection track from the Minkiö locomotive shop track to the field tracks has been built. The field tracks have not been used for almost ten years. They were originally built for storage tracks before the line from Minkiö to Humppila was rebuilt and the carriage shed in Humppila bought. When new tracks to Minkiö locomotive shop were built in the beginning of the 2000s a rail connection to field tracks was lost. Because of lot of new rolling stock arriving to the railway in past year more storage space is required and a decision was made to reconnect the field tracks and take them back in to use.
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The main event of the summer is again the Minkiö Steam Festival on 28th and 29th July. At the same time there will be the Jokioinen Day's at Jokioinen with free transportation from Jokioinen station.
This years festival will be already the eighth Minkiö Steam Festival. This year there will be especially lot for the smallest of the family wit free hand car rides and playgrounds.
There will be also a free bus running from Forssa bust station to festival grounds and back!
You can find the homepage of Minkiö Steam Festival at: www.hoyryfestivaali.fi.
Watch a picturegalley and a video of the 2010 Minkiö Steam Festival.
Video of Minkiö Stema Festival 24.-25.7.2010
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The 2010 Steam Festival in Jokioinen Museum Railway offers experiences also for the old tractor lovers. Weeks before the zero hour confirmed that among a number of other tractors is also present the very rare Kullervo tractor. In Finland are only three of them remaining. The tractor is owned by Markku Lyhty and it has been manufactured by the Turku Iron and Machinery Industry. This specimen was dug up inside the country and restored to its original condition.
Download the map of festival area!
The 2010 festival area is closer last year, as all regions of the machine is a centralized Minkiö museum depot. You can download and print a map of the event in advance here. The map is in pdf format.
Minkiö upon arrival by car, follow the parking guidance and stewards instructions. Parking areas are located 100-300 meters from the festival area. People with reduced mobility and motor cycles can park the area located in the immediate vicinity of festival area.
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Two ballast wagons arrived at Jokioinen Museum Railway this and last week. The wagons are Russian made in the 1970s and they were bought and overhauled in Estonia. At Minkiö depot the wagons were lifted on top of russian boogies bought a year ago and reapared at the museum railway.
Work train rolling stock important for track maintenance
During a couple of last years lot of new rolling stock for work train use has been purchased, includin for example a TU4 diesel locomotive, two flat goods wagons and now two ballast wagons. Earlier a special track work waggon with a diesel powered crane was constructed at museum railway as well as an ex-VR Matissa tamping machine was fully overhauled. This relatively new and overhauled 1970's rolling stock and maintenance equipement is meant to replace the currently in use turn of the 20the century equipent. After this the over 100 year old equipement can be added to the museum collection of the railway.
In the next ten years a large scale project or replacing most of the currently used railway ties has to be started. Together with the planned track extension at Jokioinen end of the track there is a great need for better and more modern maintenance of way equipement.
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On 27.5. a full truck load of rolling stock arrived at Minkiö station from Estonia. On the load ther were four brand new hand cars made in Estonia for Jokioinen Museum Railway, two flat goods cars for work train use and new couplers for locomotives and cars.
The flat cars are ment to be used on the work trains. This will spare the old and more valuable open cars. These new flat cars were manufactured in Soviet Union in 1970s and were bought from a private individual.
The four new hand trolleys were orderd for the Jokioinen Museum Railway from the shops of Estonian GoTrack OÜ. These hand cars were ordered to offer a new experience for visitors: tourists can now rent hand cars when the museum is open and there are no trains running. A hand car is a nice way to get to know the museum railway and local scenery. A hand car can be operated by maximum of four people out of which two will be working and other two just holding on. The hand trolly trips are starting in the beginning of July and maximun number of participants is 16 pople. Also two steel flat cars from 1975 arrived at Minkiö.
During the past winter new cast steel buffers for cars and locomotives of Jokioinen Museum railway were manufactured in a foundry in Tallinn. In the past ten yeras the rolling stock of Jokioinen Museum railway has increased and the new couplers are used to equip rolling stock that does not yet have the Jones & Caltroph couplers used at the Jokoinen Museum railway. This time total of 14 couplers were ordered.
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Jokioinen side embankments of Jänhijoki railway bridge repaired on Sunday 17 May. Melting of winter snow had flushed out some gravel from the end of stone embankments.
The volunteers installed couple of metal tubes and wooden sleepers to support the embankment. At last it was fullfilled with a new coarse filler, which is supposed to keep finer gravel in place.
18-meter-long steel railway bridge over Jänhijoki river is located half a kilometer from Minkiö station to Jokioinen direction.