3. Keiturinsalmi-Heinäaho
Don't walk on the tracks or you'll be fined!
Soon after Härkönen comes something worth seeing.
The
Keiturinsalmi
bridge is 81 meters long.
Planks are in good condition and there is absolutely no danger in walking around and admiring the views.
Soon after the bridge, damn, a bunch of draisines. Whoever owns them, seems to think that the whole line is reserved for them only.
This rail seems to have been brand new when installed here before 1937, when the line to
Virrat
was finished.
Finally we run into Western caution signal of Virrat. To get here on wheels, one must cross a motor sleigh bridge first.
It's an Aga, which also reveals what is its functioning principle. Fueled by gas.
Maintenance ladders are still present.
600 meters East there is the semaphore. One of the last ones (if not one of the two last?) standing in Finland.
Looking closer reveals it's starting to rust seriously.
Almost functioning mechanisms.
Cables go loosely toward the station of Virrat. We follow.