The steam locomotives
Russian giants on their original rails.
Ken Eckert — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Olgerts V — CC BY-SA 4.0 · simka — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jindřich Běťák — CC BY-SA 3.0
Entirely: climbing the locomotives, the simulator and the little railway hold them — though the deportation wagon needs an adult's explanation, or skipping with young children.
Sign in to write your review of this place.
No reviews yet — be the first.
Locomotives on real rails on the riverbank: the museum occupies a historic engine shed in the Pārdaugava district opposite the old town, displaying some forty locomotives and carriages in the open — from giant Russian steam engines to Soviet diesels to passenger and freight stock, most of which can be climbed into. Its most famous exhibit is not a locomotive but a wagon: the deportation wagon in which Latvians were carried to Siberia in 1941 and 1949 — a wooden freight car with almost no windows, entered by visitors to read accounts of journeys that lasted weeks. Inside is an exhibition on Latvia's railways since 1861, with signalling equipment, a driving simulator and a narrow-gauge line for children running in season. Most of the museum is outdoors, so weather matters, and it lies ten minutes' walk from the Stone Bridge.
Russian giants on their original rails.
And the children's narrow-gauge line in season.
Uzvaras bulvāris 2/4, Riga