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The Inclined Plane In the 19th century, the biggest obstacle to the flourishing mining industry was above all the poor transport system. When Yngs-Daglöse railway AB was formed in 1851, the plan was to build a horse railway between the lakes Yngen and Daglösen. Just outside the center of Filipstad, Abborrberget was in the way of the plans, it was of course possible to build around the mountain, but that would also mean that the project became significantly more expensive. The solution was to construct an inclined plane, one of the oldest simple machines for saving power, where downward carriages would pull up the upward ones. The seven kilometer track was completed in 1853 after a work effort of 300 men. The carts were pulled to the foot of the mountain by horses and then hooked to a steel cable that went around a disc. Ore came down the mountain from Högbergsfältet and supplies went up to the mine. When the tilting plane was in use, about 120 tons per day could be transported in this way. The Yngs-Daglöse railway was part of a system that could only be used as long as the lakes were ice-free, so when the iron works began to demand ore all year round, they had to rethink and invest in a railway between Kristinehamn and Persberg. The carriages on the inclined plane stopped running around 1873 and today there are no traces of the operation. But the mountain and hill are of course still there and offer a different industrial history excursion.