Description of the attraction
The Museum of Railway Engineering in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is dedicated to the unique railway on Sakhalin. Part of the road can be seen in this open-air museum.
The museum was opened on July 30, 2004, and is dedicated to the railway, technology, the special history of the development of the road on Sakhalin, its specifically narrow gauge. Since the time of the presence of the Japanese in the south of the island, the track with a width of 1067 mm has been maintained in working order.
Tourists will get acquainted with a two-axle Japanese platform, a Japanese snowplow "Wajima" built in 1939, a two-axle covered wagon, a diesel train car "Kiha", a screw-rotor snowplow based on a section of the TG-16 diesel locomotive of the Lyudinovo plant, a 25-ton tank built in 1954. Thanks to collectors, lovers of antiquity, the collection of the museum is constantly replenished with items of railway equipment.
In the museum, in addition to rolling stock samples, there are elements of the railway infrastructure - semi-auto couplings, semaphores, nodes and parts of turnouts, hydrocolumns, which are of historical value. The museum is unique not only for JSC Russian Railways, but also for the whole of Russia.
