The year 2010 board of the Museum Railway Association, an association which maintains and operates the Jokioinen Museum Railway has been elected. The annual meeting of the association was held on last Saturday in Minkiö.

Marko Laine from Helsinki was elected as a President of the association. He will replace Markku Nikander in the post in the begin of January. The Vice President continues to be Lauri Niemi from Vantaa. As a new secretary was elected Teemu Virtanen from Lahti.

Janne Rutonen from Hämeenlinna was elected to replace new President Marko Laine as a board member. All other board members were re-elected.

Two important turnouts of track number 1 of Minkiö yard will be fully rebuilt in winter 2009-2010. In the weekend 24.-25.10 the turnouts were removed in elements with the help of an excavator and piled next to a road. Today 3.11. the elements were picked up by a truck and taken to a shop for a complete rebuild. The points, frogs and the mechanism will be rebuilt and new cross ties installed. The renovated turnouts will be put back in their place in spring 2010. This work is part of the Minkiö yard rebuilding which started in 2006.

The TU4 diesel hydraulic locomotive arrived at Jokioinen Museum Railway on Thursday October 29 after being fully rebuilt in Estonia. Testing of locomotive started immediately after the locomotive was crane lifted on rails and continued the following day. The locomotive has already been running to Humppila several times both hauling a train and as a single locomotive.

The running season 2009 is closing to its end and it seems to be the best ever. There were more people than ever visiting Jokioinen Museum Railway and according to preliminary results almost 19 000 voyages were made, making the year 2009 equal to the previous record year 2007. Also the profitability of train operations  increased as less trains were ran compared to situation in 2007. There were 15 days of scheduled traffic and 18 days of chartered traffic. The 19th day of chartered traffic will be next Thursday when the last charter train of year 2009 will be run. After that we will receive more precise information of the result of this running season.

During the Jokioinen days on Saturday 26.6. there are extra trains running between Jokioinen and Raemäki halt. The price of a train ride is 5 euros return and 4 euros one way. Children from 6 to 16 years pay half price. Trains depart Jokioinen station about every 20 minutes between 11.00 and 14.00 o'clock.

It is also posiible to take a train departing Minkiö at 10.35 and arriving at Jokioinen at 11.00 and a train departing Jokioinen at 14.00 arriving Minkiö at 14.20.

The cosmetic renovation work of the Tampella 256/1916 steam locomotive has been completed. The cab of the locomotive was returned to its original look and some of the rusted wall sheets of the cabin replaced. Also a missing steam dome cover and cab doors were rebuilt.

The locomotive will spend summer 2009 in Juuka in the  Suomen Kivikeskus "Keisarien aika Suomessa" -exposition.