The tugboat "Lajla" in Tornhamn during the construction of the national border railway. Building railway in wilderness and in particular so isolated areas as these north of Kiruna required extensive efforts for transporting staff, supplies, equipment and materials. Up to Kiruna managed transport by quickly building a driving track from Gällivare. When the rail lattice in the autumn of 1900 reached until Torneträsk, it began to report the bulk of the necessary goods that route and on with the motor boat Laila along the line or winter time with slädforor.

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