The Historical Logging Switchback Railway in Vychylovka (near

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) is a preserved section of the former

narrow-gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curv ...

zig zag

logging railway A forest railway, forest tram, timber line, logging railway or logging railroad is a mode of railway transport which is used for forestry tasks, primarily the transportation of felling, felled Trunk (botany), logs to sawmills or railway stations. ...

located in

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and Orava region. The railway was closed in 1971 and disassembled, except an 8 km section from Chmúra to Tanečník. Currently a section is used as a

heritage railway A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) ...

for tourists.

Vehicles

*Steam locomotive MÁV 2282/1909 (U34.901) – in service *Steam locomotive MÁV 4281/1916 (U45.9) – in service until 1999 *Steam locomotive Kraus Maffei 15791/1940 – out of service *Steam locomotive ČKD 2612/1948 – out of service *Steam locomotive ČKD 1441/1928 – in service (this is the last locomotive that went along the disassembled track in 1972; Until 1990 placed as memorial in depot Žilina). Enthusiasts from the civic association Krúžok long fought for her rescue. A generous sponsorship donation to save the locomotive and its two-year repair allowed the historic machine in 2011 to return to the Oravan valleys and consider tourists.

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The club of romantics of the narrow-gauge railway of Orava and Kysuce
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