Its typical that silence is a common visitor at the roundhouse of Kontiomäki, but the old class Hv3 steam locomotive manages to bring back the past that these corner has once enjoyed.

The wood fired ten wheeler #995 is running a passenger train on the line between Nurmes and Lieksa.

The Finnish wood burner #995 has just arrived at the Lieksa station with a passenger train from Nurmes. The engineer is oiling the machine.

The Finnish wood burner #995 is leaving Nurmes station with a passenger train to Lieksa.

The beautiful Finnish wood burner #995 is turned on the Nurmes turntable.

Freight train from Riga arriving at Daugavpils station

The wood fired steam locomotive #995 hauling a passenger train between Vuokatti and Nurmes is running through a typical Finnish landscape consisting of lakes and woods.

The wood fired steam locomotive #995 hauling a passenger train between Vuokatti and Nurmes is running through a typical Finnish landscape consisting of lakes and woods.

The wood fired steam locomotive #995 hauling a passenger train between Vuokatti and Nurmes is running through a typical Finnish landscape consisting of lakes and woods.

Portrait of the Finnish wood fired steam locomotive #995 on the turntable at the Nurmes shed. The locomotive of the Hv3 class has been built by Lokomo in 1941.

The wood fired steam locomotive #995 is leaving the Vuokatti station with a passenger train under a threatening sky.

Woodburner

Basking in the morning sun, wood burning ten-wheeler No 995 of the Hv3 class sits in anticipation of its day's work hauling a charter train for the photo enthusiasts.... (more)

Northwoods Idyll

Preserved ten-wheeler No 995 skirts one of Finland's 187,000 lakes. Beautiful to look at, but remember, this is mosquito country. This was a prearranged c... (more)

High Latitude Summer With its wood fire so clean there is almost no smoke visible, preserved 10-wheeler No. 995 moves its matching wooden coaches at track speed between Nurmes and Lieks... (more)

CSX Q277 heads west past Neville Island on its westward journey to Ohio.