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The artist of Christmas card is PTJ Koskinen, a steam locomotive engineer of Jokioinen Museum Railway. On the card the Santa Claus with his elves is craning down the Krauss steam locomotive which was for many years on display at Haapamäki steam locomotive park. He has just one problem. He is trying to put the meter gauge locomotive on 750 mm gauge rails at the new Jokioinen track extension. He is even been puting some pieces of wood to make the gauge wider. He just does not know that a special one meter gauge track was constructed at Humppila to accommodate the Krauss steam locomotive...
You can also visit our image gallery to view Museum Railway Christmas greetings of past years. All of them are drawn by PTJ Koskinen.
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A new shelter for hand car riders was installed at the Gravel Pit Spur picnic area. The shelter was constructed this autumn in the Minkiö workshop and transported by train to its location at the Grave Pit Spur on Thursday 10.12. It was lifted by the rail crane on top of railway sleepers and pulled with a rope pulley to its final location.
The shelter is a great improvement for the small picnic area constructed in the early 2000s. The shelter will be later completed with wooden benches and a camp fire place.
The shelter and the picnic area can be only accessed by train or railway hand cars and it is meant for the use of train passengers and hand car riders. Hand cars can be rented at Minkiö station by prior reservation or in summer season also straight at the Minkiö station. Also the scheduled trains will stop on request at the Gravel Pit Spur (Soravaihde).
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Santa would like personally thank everybody who rode this year's Santa Claus Train at Jokioinen Museum Railway. There were really many people riding the train and we hope that everybody was able to meet and talk with Santa. We also made the all time passenger record of a single train. There were more than 330 passengers onboard the midday nine carriage train. Total number of passengers carried during the day was as high as 1697!
Even the heavy rain in afternoon did not spoil the day and onboard the last train some of Santa's elves started wildly dancing. Santa himself wants to wish Happy Christmas for everybody who rode his train and he promised to visit all of you at Christmas!
Finally we like to remain everybody that our charter traffic starts in spring 2016 as soon as weather permits. The scheduled Sunday traffic starts on Sunday 5.6. 2016 with the Minkiö Veteran Car Day!
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Christmas is coming but before it there will still be a possibility to ride a narrow gauge trains! At the same time you have a chance to meet the Santa Claus before he is too busy in delivering all the presents. It is often that at the Christmas he is too busy to stop for a chat, only the presents left under the christmas tree show he has been passing by.
On Saturday the 5.12. a special Santa Claus Train is running on Jokioinen Museum Railway having the Santa himself onboard as an invited guest. The nice kids and even bigger ones might have a chance to get candy from the Santa and all paying passengers will receive hot juice and biscuits at Minkiö Station!
For more information on the Santa Claus Train please check our event calendar!
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The summer at Jokioinen Museum Railway ended with a Star Light Train and a spectacular fireworks show in beautiful autumn weather. Thank you for everybody who took part to the event. There was something special in the evening when the oil lamps were lit and steam trains kept running. There was a broad interest to the Star Light Train with guests coming as far as from Japan when a Japanese TV crew visited us when filming a documentary.
You can still rent railway hand cars until snow blocks the rails and the last steam train of the year will be the Santa Claus Express on Saturday 5th of December. We ate also still selling charter trains, so if your group wants to take a train ride check our charter train pages!
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On Sunday 23.8. all trains running are mixed trains. Thaey have both passenger coaches and goods wagons. Trains stop at the stations, drop off some of the goods waggons and take some new ones. It might be that trains are running behind the time table, but there is noreason to worry. Nobody is in hurry. Traveling and moving itself are more important than arriving. There is no hurry to get anywhere. The trains keep going and wheels rolling.
You can really enjoy a voyage onboard an old time mixed train and even have stop for cup of coffee at Minkiö station. You can find the train timetables at our Event Calendar!
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On Sunday 16.8. visitors at Jokioinen Museum Railway enjoyed a Soviet style workers lunch onboard "Stolovaja", the ex Soviet restaurant car of Jokioinen Museum Railway. The lunch was served aboard the restaurant car parked at the Minkiö station and it included a warm soup "Seljanka", warm main course (pasta with a mince meat sauce) and dessert kompot, bread and drinks (mineral water, sour milk, tea and coffee).
Guest were happy of the restaurant car which was now used for the first time and the day kept the staff very busy. The car had been decorated in Soviet style with tea boxes, banderols, samovar and old "Neuvostoliitto" (Soviet Union) magazines together with Soviet music!
Big thanks to everybody visiting our restaurant car and of course to all the people who made thisgreta day possible!
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This year Minkiö Steam Festival turned already ten years! The Festival was visited by 2300 guests and there were more than 140 volunteers organizing the festival hold on the last weekend of July on 25.-26.7.
At the Minkiö Steam Festival one could see running stationary steam engines and demonstrations of how they were used. There were also four steam trains running from Humppila and Jokioinen Stations to the festival grounds at Minkiö station. In addition there was a free museum coach service from Forssa to Jokioinen railway station.
For the kids there was a special kids corner with a railway themed jumping castle and also possibility to ride on a real horse.
For more information please check the Minkiö Steam Festival web pages!