It's all in Finnish, but here is a website for a campground/amusement park in Finland that, besides minature park-size riding and HO trains, has some full-size equipment, with apparently at least one steam locomotive that runs. There appears to be a 4-6-2 that is sectioned to show the interior of the boiler, and also an Alco-built 2-8-0. There is a three-minute video on the site. Perhaps someone fluent in the Finnish language can tell us more?

http://www.martinsafarit.fi/veturipuisto/
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From where I got the original URL:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,756797
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> From where I got the original URL:

Haapamäki (as I have it listed, the URL called it Happamaki) was the site of Finland's former strategic reserve of steam locomotives. As the posted stated, some have been restored and placed in the museum, others are rusting away waiting for better days.

Two of the steam locomotives were traded to Russia for Russian locomotives. That's where the German "Kriegloksmotiv" (later Russian TE class), the Russian L class and another Russian locomotive came from. I have 26 locomotives listed in the museum, and another 46 in the scrapyard (ex reserve) next door.

The American 2-8-0 is Tv2 class #618 (ALCO (Brooks)/57197/1917)

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