Open-Air Museum of Locomotives

Zduńska Wola Karsznice is a strategic rail junction on the 430-km ‘coal line’ completed in the 1930s across Poland from the coalfield of Upper Silesia to the Baltic port of Gdynia. The Open-Air Museum of Locomotives was created in 1993 by the State Railways with the help of local employees. In 2015 it became a branch of the Museum of the History of the City of Zduńska Wola. It covers a large area of sidings and original buildings with around 40 major objects on display in the open air alongside an indoor exhibition of scale-models, photographs, original artefacts and ephemera. In addition to its own collection, the museum has many exhibits on loan. Giants on display include standard-gauge and narrow-gauge steam, diesel and electric locomotives, passenger cars and freight wagons. A funicular car is mounted on a section of elevated track. Equipment to service the railways is also on show, such as a steam-crane, a snowplough, a pump and a compressor.