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Can you please tell me about the Blumberg steam railway?. It is known as the "Pigs Tail", and is in SW Germany in the state of Baden-Wurtemberg. I would to know when and why it was built and also why it was so important to NATO?

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Great steam train ride: Museumsbahn Wutachtal from Blumberg to Weizen (on the Swiss border). Called "Sauschwänzlebahn "=Sow's tail railway because it curves back on itself. Quite amazing (model in the museum makes it clearer).

here is more information the history but there is no any connection to HATO mentioned - http://www.wutachtalbahn.de/b_domain_wtb/sauschwaenzlebahn/wutachtalbahn.php

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Most of the information I found was in German - here is a translated version of a history - computer translation often gives you very strange grammar - so it is somewhat difficult to understand in places - it does give the history - including the fact that NATO had the line reconditioned for strategic purposes (during the cold war - East and West Germany were seperate countries - but the exact reason was not given)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.henrifloor.nl/sauschwaenzlebahn.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DSauschwaenzlebahn%2Bnato%26hl%3Den%26hs%3Dket%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla: en-US:official%26sa%3DG

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wutachtalbahn&prev=/search%3Fq%3DWutachtalbahn%26hl%3Den%26hs%3D1lE%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official
Here is another one (German version of Wikepedia)

Basically, when you look at the map - it is very near the Swiss border - and was probably considered a important rail link in case of Soviet aggression in the area. Nato apparently never really used the route - although they paid to rehab and maintain the route for years.

Edited by FamilyPhysician on 7/31/2006 at 11:44 AM

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