Museum Kereta Ambarawa

Take the train has become common, but the steam train ride with teak wood fuel and still produce a loud noise of course can be enjoyed by everyone. In Ambarawa, precisely Museum Kereta Ambarawa is still able to ride old trains still use the principles of the findings of James Watt steam boiler. 

Museum Kereta Ambarawa was originally known as Station Willem I, was built on 05/21/1873 and is used to facilitate transport dutch team to Semarang. City Ambarawa at that time was the military district. In the colonial era, the train is in the station is used as a means of public transport to serve passengers and agricultural products around the location. To cross the hilly area, at the center of the railway line there is a special steel plate to facilitate climbing. 

Ambarawa Railway Station Railway Museum inaugurated the Ambarawa on 04/08/1978.. activity of this station is closed since 1970, this museum there are 21 an. In this museum there are 21 ancient locomotives used by the Indonesian army in the battle in the face of the Dutch army. Unfortunately the current condition seems less manicured and a lot of vendors who set arbitrarily to disrupt the beauty of building the museum in the shape of this station.
Unique path is the path of cars used cars serrated. This jagged railway used to climb onto a raised railway Bedono Station which is about 9 km. From Station to Station Bedono Ambarawa ride will take approximately 1.5 hours. Band is very exotic cars because we served Merbabu view in the distance and fields to Rawa dizziness countryside, looking left and right sides as well as cars. 

Beam from the Ambarawa to Station Bedono be interspersed with stops at the station flipped Pink for her. Locomotive was moved to the back to push the car up to Bedono. In addition to changing the position of locomotives, cars will stop several times to fill water boiler economizer. Car stopped about 15 minutes to fill water into the car by means of a pump. 

 This steam locomotive takes 2.5 hours to heat 2000 cubic meters of water in the boiler. Wood fuel should also be of the type of wood is hard, after a new heat-driven trains and also requires a reliable driver who understands the process of burning the old train energy. This steam train ride experience rarely equaled by other travel experience.
The museum is wearing the cost of 5.2 million dollars for a travel route using the old railway which can carry up to a maximum of 80 people.
So when you want to try?