Offense lane

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The Offenseebahn was a narrow-gauge forest railway in the Offensee area ( Salzkammergut , Upper Austria ).

History

Initially, the brewing pans of the Ebensee saltworks were fired with wood that was brought to the saltworks from the Offensee by means of wood drift. After the saline was converted to coal, the timber had to find new buyers as timber. The wood was damaged by the drift and its value decreased. A forest railway with a track width of 800 mm was built to cope with the new transport task . On November 26, 1906, the forest railway was officially started on the Offenseebahn. After the initial operation as a gravity railway, the provisional operation with locomotives up to kilometer 8.1 Offensee was approved on June 22, 1909 after a technical and police check . The steam locomotive could transport up to 10,000 solid cubic meters of long timber annually . The last trip took place on July 10, 1954. This was followed by the rapid dismantling of the route , and usable vehicles came to the Reichraming Forest Railway . On the occasion of the Salzkammergut Upper Austrian Provincial Exhibition in 2008, a small exhibition on the topic of forest management was set up near Schloss Ort in Gmunden. One of the showpieces is a long timber transport car from the Offenseebahn.

route

The route began at Steinkogel station on the Salzkammergut Railway . Then it rose steeply and finally ended after 17.5 km in the forest.

vehicles

By 1942, a Ct twin wet steam locomotive from the Linz factory of Krauss & Comp. of the year of construction 1907 use. 1941 came to replace the steam locomotive a Deutz - Diesel engine with 75 PS used, which was transported to the dismantling of Reichraming.

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