Altsevo peat railway explained

Altsevo peat railway
Locale:	Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
Type:	Narrow-gauge railway
Open:	1962
Operator:	ООО «Альцево-торф»
Linelength:	10km (10miles)
Start:	Pizhma

57.8699°N 47.1103°WThe Altsevo peat railway is located in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1962, and has a total length of 10km (10miles) and a track gauge of .

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

See also

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

References and sources

1. Web site: "Altsovsky Moss" . 2012-12-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120510232103/http://www.innov.ru/np/2008_9/page26.htm . 2012-05-10 . dead .

External links

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