Sharya Forest Museum Railway
58.382534°N 45.494091°E 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]
| Sharya Forest Museum Railway | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 | |||
| Overview | |||
| Locale | Kostroma Oblast, Russia | ||
| Termini | Sharya | ||
| Service | |||
| Type | Narrow gauge railway | ||
| Operator(s) | Sharya Forest Museum | ||
| History | |||
| Opened | 2014 | ||
| Technical | |||
| Line length | 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) | ||
| Track gauge | 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | ||
| |||
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. It 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 vehicles, which are important for the Russian railway and forestry history including:
Railway cars
- Passenger car – PV-40T
Aeronautical engineering
- Plane aircraft protection — An-2 (RA-29327)
References
- Sharya Forest Museum Railway, opened in 2014 (in Russian)
- Sharya Forest Museum, 2014 (in Russian)
- Sharya Forest Museum, 2015 Archived 2016-10-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- Sharya Forest Museum, 2015 (in Russian)
- TU8-0167 with passenger train in the Sharya Park
External links
- Photo – project "Steam Engine" (in Russian)