title: Sharya Forest Museum Railway
text: # Sharya Forest Museum Railway
  
  58°22′57″N 45°29′39″E﻿ / ﻿58.382534°N 45.494091°E﻿ / 58.382534; 45.494091 The Sharya Forest Museum Railway (Russian: Узкоколейная железная дорога Шарьинского музея леса) is a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in)-gauge forest railway based at open-air Sharya Forest Museum located in Sharya, opened in 2014.
  
  ## Current status
  
  The Sharya Forest Museum Railway is a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) narrow gauge railroad loop passing through the Sharya Park in Kostroma Oblast. The museum railway was opened in 2014. It has a total length of 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) and is operational as of 2016. The exhibit consists mostly of locomotives, passenger and freight cars, tractors, skidders, forestry vehicles and machines.
  
  ## Museum's collection
  
  The museum owns many interesting vehicles, which are important for the Russian railway and forestry history including:
  
  ### Locomotives and draisines
  
  * TU8 – No. 0167
  * Draisine – TD-5u
  
  ### Railway cars
  
  * Passenger car – PV-40T
  
  ### Aeronautical engineering
  
  * Plane aircraft protection — An-2 (RA-29327)
  