Industrieel Smalspoor Museum
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Gauge : | 900 mm ( narrow gauge ) |
The Industrieel Smalspoormuseum (ISM) is a narrow gauge - works railway - Museum in the district Amsterdamscheveld the village Emmen Erica in the Dutch province of Drenthe . It is near the village of Emmen-Weiteveen .
The museum, founded in 1984, is located on a 6 hectare site on the Dommerskanaal . In this area was until 1983 peat processed by the Griendtsveen Turfstrooisel Maatschappij to peat. The museum has a collection of light rail locomotives, wagons, tools, photographs and other exhibits.
Round trips are carried out on the narrow-gauge railway tracks with a gauge of 900 mm.
The only remaining peat litter factory in the Netherlands is in its original condition with the associated unloading system. There is also a four-track, narrow-gauge railroad engine shed from 1910 that served as a workshop for the museum for years. Both the peat litter factory and the depot are national monuments.
Web links
- www.smalspoorcentrum.nl (partly in German, mainly in Dutch)
Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 41 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 1.7 ″ E