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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. |