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Altsevo peat railway
Overview
Locale	Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
Termini	Pizhma
Service
Type	Narrow-gauge railway
Operator(s)	ООО «Альцево-торф»
History
Opened	1962
Technical
Line length	10 kilometres (6.2 mi)
Track gauge	750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Route map

57°52′12″N 47°06′37″E / 57.8699°N 47.1103°E / 57.8699; 47.1103 The Altsevo peat railway is located in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1962, and has a total length of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) and a track gauge of 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in).

Current status

The Altsevo peat railway was constructed in 1962 in the Tonshayevsky District, and runs from the village of Pizhma to the swamp "Altsovsky Moss". The railway was built for hauling peat and workers and operates year-round with several pairs of trains a day. A peat briquette factory was built and put into operation in 2005. ^[1]

Rolling stock

Locomotives

• TU6A - No. 0310
• TU8 - No.***
• ESU2A - No. 671
• TD-5U "Pioneer" - Transportation local residents

Railroad car

• Flat wagon
• Tank wagon
• Snowplow
• Crane (rail)
• Tank wagon - fire train
• Passenger car (rail)
• Track laying cranes
• Open wagon for peat
• Hopper wagon to transport track ballast

Gallery

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  Narrow-gauge railway
• 
  Tank wagon
• 
  Open wagon for peat
• 
  Open wagon for peat
• 
  Peat railway
• 
  TU8 locomotive

See also

• Narrow-gauge railways in Russia
• Kerzhenets peat narrow-gauge railway
• Narrow-gauge railway of Decor-1 factory

References and sources

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Altsevo peat narrow gauge railway.

• Photo - project «Steam Engine» (Russian language)
• «The site of the railroad» S. Bolashenko (Russian language)