Traditional Autumn colours special and starlight train will end the season of Jokioinen Museum Railway. The steam trains will run on Saturday 18 September. The traffic will start already early afternoon and ends late in the evening.

You will find more detailed schedule information at the event calendar. Please note that Saturday 18 September are only fixed-rate whole-day tickets on sale.

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.

The main event of the summer was again the Minkiö Steam Festival on 24th and 25th July. In despite of bad weather forecasts the weather was favouring the festival and there was plenty of sunshine on both festival days.

This years steam festival was already sixth Minkiö Steam Festival. Next year the Minkiö Steam Festival will be there again on the last weekend of July 30.-31.-7. 2011. 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.

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.

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.

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.