Hi all,

I took these photos from Finnish Railway Museum in Hyvinkää (Southern Finland). All of these are in 1:10 scale.


Finnish old diesel locomotive:





Finnish diesel locomotive operated by car battery and used as a garden train :




Here the same with my oldest 6 year old son as a passenger . The track is about 200 meters long and they use also other locomotives sometimes:





"Ilmarinen" an old Finnish steam locomotive and it´s prototypes 1:1 sign:









Old wooden passenger car:







Another old steam locomotive D1 "Arnold". This one has moving mechanics and it is used with 20 cent coins. It was manufactured between the years 1929-1931:




I will post soon photos of a really impressive looking 1:10 scale Finnish live steam locomotive type Tk 3 nickname "Pikku Jumpo". In those photos it is without it´s tender, but the details of it are awesome . Unfortunately it is behind some glass windows and they are reflecting badly when taking photos...




Cheers,
Janne

Excellent photo's Janne,

Could just be me but many of your older loco's have what I would consider a "American" look to them. Not that there is such a think I guess but I get that feeling looking at some of these as well as the 1:1 loco's.

Great to get up close with engines and rolling stock from the other side of the world. Thanks heaps for sharing with us.

I guess so up to a point Jacques.

It was just a overall impression with maybe 4 of them. A combination of the colour schemes, snow catchers (cow catchers) and the basic boxy engineers cabs on those particular loco's along with the spark arrestor stacks and even possibly the wheel arrangement.

Great shots Janne,In the USA on logging lines with so many wooden trestle bridges the risk of fire was so high that they used all types of weird spark arrestors to try and stop fires. Some worked better than others, but most of the wooden trestles would have caught fire and been rebuilt a few times over their life span. Take care Eddie

Hi Kimball,

Thank you. I took many photos from the Finnish Railway Museum and there is a topic from this under Prototype section of this forum. I took actually photos showing the differences between Finnish railroads and common European railroads track width.

Edit: Finland has 1524 mm and common European track width is 1435 mm. So we have wider track width here and almost the same as in Russia. So no 1:87 H0 scale models are manufactured by Märklin from Finnish trains then... 😳.

Regards,
Janne

Edited by user 12 July 2014 09:41:40(UTC)  | Reason: Corrected the track widths in Finland and Europe as they were wrong