A TGOJ T43 resting for the weekend in Orsa, August 2001. See more in Ollies trainstuff!, all colorphotos by Ollie Ahokas

Orsa







Orsa.

Orsa is located 17 kilometers north of Mora, Click here for more on Orsa.

Just north of Orsa is Born, which has a large sectionhouse. and the track is a tangent to the crossing of River Emån. Here you will find a small sawmill converted to fishfarm with a small restaurant. On this site you will find a RPO baggage trailer for Y6-8 generation DMU.s used as a shed.

The bridge over the river looks a bit a odd, but is a resultat of flood that swept away a span. The new one one is of modern concrete construction

Pics on Inland Line

Kallholnfors (Kallholn)



















Kallholnfors (Kallholn).



Kallholnsfors is the next stop east from Orsa. Unlike anything else on the line, it is dominated by a single industry. A huge limestone plant located middle of the woods. The depot, or better yet, yard office seem to date from later days, perhaps from the thirties or the sixties. It is fairly easy to see that the trackworks here has been more complex than today. It is mere just a runaround track and a long siding that turns off the main. to west. Before entering the yard, you will pass a section house, which is like its sisters a weekend cabin. To the left, a loading dock which has lost its track and to the right perhaps, not certain a scale house. The tracks here are also long gone.





The lime stone plant is filled with detail and very weathered. The building looks like a mingle of Waltherns large grain elevator and a couple of Revells gravel silos on the "new" part and more traditional buildings on its older part. Yet the site is very compact and jumps out from the woods no matter which direction you come from. The sidings are filled with cement hopper cars of typical Swedish design, a pair of round cylinders sitting on a short but sturdy underframe.





Mässbacken

Mässbacken.

After about a scenic kilometer and half on edge of a ridge. we arrive to Mässbacken

Mässbacken is a bit of a time machine and the hamlets buildings are gathered around the station area. It is easy to trace the buildings history, there is a former general store, bed and breakfast, café etc.

The stationhouse is now a private residence and the track that remains is just the main. The yard is traceable and seems to been a runaround track and a siding to freight shed and loading platform. at the west end there is old section house, used as a weekend cottage.



Ads the depot is now a residence, and the planted trees along the old platforms prevent quite effectively photographs from other than west or south, only images I offer you is as shown here.

Skattungbyn.



Skattungbyn.

Deep down in a valley you will find the right of way in Skattungbyn. The track arrangement looks a bit unclear, but most likely there have been a track to saw mill to the west of the depot. The depot itself is private residence, with lots of trees in the garden and the more or less har to take pics on. The hamlet of Skattungbyn is located high above the former yard in a very scenic section of the hillside facing north, where you are treated to breathtaking view to the wilderness to north. track here is only the main.

Furudal.



Furudal.

Furudal is located where the Lake Ore forks in to a river. The "downtown" is more or less atreet crossing, and there are a number of private homes scattered around the "downtown". The yard itself still has passingtrack and the station is partly used as a taxi company headquartes and partly as residence. West of the yard is a site for a rather large plant, that builds prefabricated wooden houses and much of the revenue was raw timber to the plant and all door boxcars of loaded material from the plant. Eventually, the cost of using rail, forced the company to use highway trucks for this service.

Göringen.



Göringen.

Göringen is a former junction to the short Dalforsen branch. See more on Göringen in Göringen section or by clicking here.

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