© Slovak Post, 2005 In the first half of the last century, narrow-gauge forest railway lines were the typical forest transport in Slovakia. These railways were built at the beginning of the 20th century with a view to replacing the obsolete transportation of wood by water, and to secure the fast and reliable transportation of wood from the forests to places where it was further processed or to state railways stations from where the wood was transported to customers. The Kysuce-Orava forest railway was one of the most significant and largest forest railways in Slovakia. This railway, with a gauge of...