Along a mountain road about twenty kilometres north of Drvar in western Bosnia stands a train that Tito and his partisans used during the war between 1941–1944. This was an area that between 1941 and 1945 belonged to the independent state of Croatia under the leadership of Ante Pavelic and his ultra-fascists. The train was mostly used to transport war material and wounded soldiers but also for troop transport and Tito himself. In 1944 the train was abandoned when the Germans advanced in the area but the train strangely survived the war. After the war, the train was declared a historical cultural heritage and was de-commissioned and exhibited in 1951.
Current status: Preserved (2025).
Location: 44°28' 48.39" N 16°24' 08.48" E
Get there: Car.
Follow up in books: Pirjevec, Joze: Tito and his Comrades (2018).
The Train did not only survived the Second World War but also survived the Civil War that raged in the early nineties. The train is now sheltered under a roof and can be visited around the clock. There is also a ruin next to the train that I do not know if it is from the Second World War or from the Civil War.