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.

Work train rolling stock important for track maintenance

During a couple of last years lot of new rolling stock for work train use has been purchased, includin for example a TU4 diesel locomotive, two flat goods wagons and now two ballast wagons. Earlier a special track work waggon with a diesel powered crane was constructed at museum railway as well as an ex-VR Matissa tamping machine was fully overhauled. This relatively new and overhauled 1970's  rolling stock and maintenance equipement is meant to replace the currently in use turn of the 20the century equipent. After this the over 100 year old equipement can be added to the museum collection of the railway.

In the next ten years a large scale project or replacing most of the currently used railway ties has to be started. Together with the planned track extension at Jokioinen end of the track there is a great need for better and more modern maintenance of way equipement.