Titov Voz na Oštrelju

This listed train (Titov Voz na Oštrelju) is on display under a wooden shelter in Oštrelj, a hamlet set in a pass at an altitude of 1,040 m and 13 km southeast of Bosanski Petrovac. Painted green and renovated in 2019, it served as the Yugoslav partisan leader's mobile headquarters during the Second World War. From November 1941, six months after the German invasion, an underground rail network began operating in the free zone of Bihać with around thirty trains. This one in particular was driven by Tito himself between Bosanski Petrovac and his secret cave in Drvar (17 km south of Oštrelj), in Tropolje. This is the original locomotive, a 1904 German Krauss-Maffei type 12 crossed out with the word Proleterka ("proletariat"). But the rest of the train, including the mail wagon converted into a HQ, burned down and has now been replaced by similar equipment from the same period. Reaching 25 km/h, the locomotive was used until 1951 between Prijedor and Knin (Croatia) on a narrow-gauge line closed in 1975. It's a quick visit, but Oštrelj (pronounced "ochtreille") is the main tourist area in the Bosanski Petrovac region. Admittedly, the hamlet was destroyed at the end of the last war and now has fewer than 10 permanent inhabitants. But it does boast a small ski resort (a ski lift, 2 km of pistes up to an altitude of 1,226 m), an honest restaurant (Gostiona Oštrelj) and a few villas for rent with evocative names (Carpe Diem, The Cozy Chalet...).