In the 1800´s a lot of iron ore was found in the very north of Sweden, Kiruna and 
Luossavaara. To get the heavy ore to the coast, a railway line was built by hand, with not
much else than pickaxes and horses on the open tundra, over the mountains from Kiruna to 
Narvik in Norway. For decades the railway was the only means of transportation: still in the
1960´s no road existed. Photo of an iron ore train at Torneträsk station on the tundra in
August 1998 by Ilkka Siissalo (ilkka@smile.ch)