Sharya Forest Museum Railway
| Sharya Forest Museum Railway | |||
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| 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) | ||
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58°22′57″N 45°29′39″E / 58.382534°N 45.494091°E The Sharya Forest Museum Railway (Template:Lang-ru) 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]
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[update]. 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:
Locomotives and draisines
Railway cars
- Passenger car – PV-40T
See also
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