Portal:Trains/Selected picture/Week 17, 2007

Austrian kkStB express engine 108.04, a 4-4-2, on a turntable circa 1901.

At the end of 1884 the state railway network in Austria covered 5103 km. On July 1, 1884, the kk Generaldirektion der Staatsbahnen (Imperial General Directorate of the State Railways) was founded creating the kaiserlich-königliche Staatsbahnen (abbreviated as kkStB or k.k.St.B.).