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An open bog area Aitoneva has supplied lot of peat for our country. The ca. 2 km blind track from Aitoneva's point was built only to serve peat transportation. This is where the journey starts. Here are instructions for travelling with manpowered draisine.
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The instructions are there because of a local enterprise that arranges rail trips. Here is some of their fleet stored at Aitoneva.
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Long whistle, and the journey may start.
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The first kilometer pole is rather unreadable.
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All kinds of pests bother draisine riders here. For instance, those f---ing flying things (July, temperature >+25 degrees..). Another problem are numerous level crossings, which have grown above the unused tracks. The steel wheel vehicle must be led to the other side.
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Light rail from 1892 serves as a pole in the crossing.
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This fungus breed obviously likes creosote.
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Another kilometer behind.
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The car in motion.
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Aitoneva's point is where merging to Pori-Haapamäki route section takes place.
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No driving the other track.
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Yep, three tracks.
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A very strange looking, scrapped 2 persons' draisine. Resembles so much the original 1 person model that it could be a result of garage-modifications.
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Auxiliary booth, any other ideas?
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This is not a railway mark, so I'm not sure whether it was against the rules to drive faster than 20 km/h in the long down-grade before Aitoneva? Anyway, people who drive the route in winter with motor sleighs will have to obey it.
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Kihniö is a few kilometers West on the track to the left. The right hand track is where we came from.
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A few kilometers goes fast when you have a good vehicle..
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..and sooner than you'd expect, a STOP-mark. After this, one could virtually encounter a train, so travelling west was continued on foot.
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Before long, the track broadens into a three-track yard.
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KIHNIÖ, the small municipality at the North-Western border of Pirkanmaa.
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The railway station reflects the state of the entire station village: sleepy, silent.
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A not-so-shiny draisine spending pensioner days at the station.
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Toilets!
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Residential houses are mostly empty? Very few seem to be interested in obtaining a historic summer place from Kihniö. The houses don't look too bad, but condition of their interiors is unknown.
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