Stories

“The Itäoja cabin is so far the largest of our workers’ cabins. It has two storeys. They say it easily accommodates fifty men and additionally foremen and locomotive crew in their own rooms.” (Ojakangas: Aurinkomutka 2012)

“The locomotive men were in that tiny ground-floor room of the cabin. But they stayed up almost all night because they had to keep the locomotive warm and have the cargo ready for the morning.” (Interview with Otto Häkkilä 29 August 1995, Eskolan Metsärata)