Hi all,

Our family visited on 8th July Finnish Railway Museum in Hyvinkää. This is in Southern Finland. We go there at least once every year as we are interested in trains . I took many photos there, so this topic will get many of them . Weather was perfect. First some photos from outside in real 1:1 scale:










This Finnish Railway Museum area is also modelled very professionally there in 1:87 scale and the self made trees and other details are stunning. There is unfortunately glass windows in front of this nice diorama so they reflect badly in these photos:














More photos soon...

Regards,
Janne

Now I will show you some Finnish locomotives. Last year I was with my oldest son (then only 5 years old) in both of these and they were driving them on the yard:


Dr13 diesel and info: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Class_Dr13





Dv16 diesel shunting locomotive:

















Dm7 railbus nickname "Lättähattu" = "Flat hat" in Finnish, this has 2-stroke diesel motor. More info here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Class_Dm7








Here even older diesel railbus Ds1 from the year 1928. More info in this link: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Class_Ds1






Cheers,
Janne

Edited by user 14 July 2014 02:22:04(UTC)  | Reason: Added Ds1 link

Still more Finnish steam locomotives:


Pr1 from the year 1926:

Edit: See also this for further info about Pr1: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Class_Pr1













Sk3 from the year 1903. Here info about the prototype: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Class_Sk3











Tr1 giant from the year 1941. Info about the prototype here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Class_Tr1

























Cheers,
Janne

Edited by user 14 July 2014 01:54:43(UTC)  | Reason: Added link to Sk3

Interesting old rail car and our 3 year old son :




Let´s continue with the steam locomotives manufactured in other countries:
























Here Vr1 and more info about the prototype in this link: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Class_Vr1






















I also took many photos of 1:10 scale really nice steam locomotives, one diesel and a 1:8 scale garden train. But as these are not 1:1 prototypes I should post them in "Big Scale" section and not here...


It was a great day for us train maniacs .


Janne

Edited by user 14 July 2014 02:27:31(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Hi again ,

In Finland steam locomotive models type codings first big letters have this meaning:

H = Henkilöveturi (Passenger locomotive)
T = Tavaraveturi (Freight locomotive)
S = Sekalaiseen ajoon tarkoitettu veturi (Mixed service locomotive)
P = Paikallisveturi (Local traffic locomotive)
V = Vaihtoveturi (Switching locomotive)

Second smaller letter has this meaning:

r = Raskas (Heavyweight)
k = Kevyt (Lightweight)


There are maybe other meanings or letters, but I don´t know about them. I just thought that this will help better to understand the basic usage of these steam locomotive models.

Regards,
Janne

Hi Gary,

It's my pleasure to show some Finnish railway stuff here as Märklin doesn't do any 1:87 models of them. I think this is mostly because of the different wider track width and very small markets anyway. They have done many Swedish SJ, Norwegian NSB and Danish DSB models. Also some Russian models. Two Russian steam locomotive models if I remember right. So I have not any Finnish models and will not ever have if Märklin will not do them in the future. Roco has one Finnish new era electric locomotive model, but it is too new for me. Here in Finland many model railroaders build their own locomotives and rolling stock. These are mostly 2-rail DC. This (and rivet counting ) is not my thing, so I buy Märklin and enjoy their looks and pulling power .

Regards,
Janne

Hi Åke,

Thank you very much for sharing these good photos. That Crocodile photo showing the size difference between gauge 1, H0 and Z is my favourite . I have to get one 1 gauge Crocodile as it looks so impressing . I wish I would have been there back then. I started this wonderful hobby again in around year 2010, so unfortunately I was not visiting Finnish Railway Museum to see these all live.

Regards,
Janne

Hi Janne,

I took the advantage to post some of the photos I took back then to same thread with your photos.
Hyvinkää railway museum is allways a pleasure to visit.

Have you visited Porvoo museum railway? Porvoo museum station
They have a small engine shed with a working steam engine and a turntable too


Hahahahaaa just read your post from your wisit to the museum after posting this.

Regards

Åke