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Continuing East, the last 20 kilometers are mostly in better shape thanks to different soil type.
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Here we've changed to territory of the city of Keuruu and province of Keski-Suomi. The station is Piili. The station building is in excellent condition.
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Piili's Westen point.
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This blind track starting from Piili has been removed. After some years it will be hard to find the line.
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Soon after the station there's a curve and speed limit only applicable to Dv12's.
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Old inter-station communication line is mostly vanished, but in many places near the tracks you can find some remaining poles, wire and insulators.
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Great, some vegetation. A draisine with >100 kilograms of moving mass and only one driving wheel has problems in such places, especially when the track ascends.
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Ylä-Kolkki, shortly after Piili has also a curve with speed limit. This time it's only for Dr13's.
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Km 503 in the woods, shortly before Yltiä, the last station before Haapamäki.
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We're approaching Haapamäki, a good reason to make some whistle.
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Quite many nails are missing.
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There's still a bridge to cross..
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A small bridge this time.
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All of the sudden, the lost world merges into operational railway. First sign of modern time is the new signal of Hpk-Sk route section.
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Km 514, welcome to Haapamäki, one of the ex-great stations of Finland's network.
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Suddenly also the rails changed to heavier ones. Our draisine was tuned for K30 rails, so it started making some noise after this switching.
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A Stop-mark cut the motion. We didn't have the phone number to traffic controller who could've given the permission to bypass the mark (and I doubt the permission would've been given anyway), so last few hundred meters were completed on foot.
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We seem to have some wooden Eims coaches here.
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Rotting slowly..
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Haapamäki train yard starts, and we turn back. The trip is in halfway.
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Couldn't leave this small-scale sawmill unnoticed, since it has one obviously old and unused brick building at the yard. The thing can be seen from the last bridge before Haapamäki.
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