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Starting from Aitoneva towards the unused direction, East (North if looking at the track kilometers).
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Before leaving, a look behind to Aitoneva's Eastern point. The rails seem to shine, but it's only due to bright sunlight shining straight toward.
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The line is missing a few sleepers here and there, but for light vehicles that's totally tolerable.
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This level crossing, unlike most others here, has been automatic. Track circuit's borker mark is attached on a durable place at the tip of a rail.
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Same subject at the other side of the crossing.
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Track circuit's connections, that's it.
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Some private persons have parked their draisines to nearby of the railroad. This vehicle has better conditions than most others, since it's safe from rain.
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Now this mark is in strange place!
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The former railway station of Korte, nowadays a rather silent place.
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Bypassing Korte quite quickly, since there isn't much to see today.
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A camourflage draisine? Not a bad idea, but we prefer the original VR colouring.
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A rare thing to find from modern railways, here the rails are not welded together. This guarantees a constant clattering sound while traveling, which is good.
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Unforseen encountering a bit East of Korte. Driver of the red draisine had nonchalantly parked the vehicle on tracks and left somewhere, so we had to go around it.
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The strange encountering occurred here. There is a lake a rock's throw away from the tracks, so it's possible that the driver was swimming. Other explanations than that, then, are much more scary.
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Angleur's rail, 30 kg/m.
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In the beginning it felt strange to drive over train bridges, when usually you always get to drive under such things.
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This section of the line was in relatively tidy shape, because it had been cleaned just some time before. Some wild growing weeds around but nothing too thick.
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A bush track, it sure is.
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This construction has been removed from a bridge in Vaskuu and it now lies waiting for future, whatever it will bring.
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Next station, Vaskuu. Here we were greeted by a man apparently living in the station.
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Explanation to why the track was so unexpectedly clean so far. To maintain a good draisine route for the travel business operating out of Aitoneva, the track has been poisoned.
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A nasty surprise awaits in Vaskuu if you don't know it. It appears quite quickly from the bush and is fatal for steel wheel traffic.
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Another level crossing and dead trees displaying the might of poisonings.
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Time to whistle.
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Understandable mark, but who is meant to exactly? It looks so old, that... trains??
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The end.. Not even near, but also here the bridge is missing. The draisine must be carried over.
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Next station is Härkönen.
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Like this shows, all the stations by this line look the same.
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