Today was a monumental occasion for the Kingdom of Austria. After months of hard work, the department of transportation had finally finished construction of the first major railway; in doing so, connecting the capital city of Kufstein to the major port city of Trieste.
This was exciting for multiple reasons. Chief among them, it allowed the rapid transit of goods and resources between the two major economic hubs of the Kingdom of Austria. The result would be a massive increase in wealth within the two regions.
Since the King was currently leading the soldiers to war in a foreign country, the position of presiding over the ceremony fell to the Chancellor of Austria, Otto von Graz was standing in front of the Rail Station in Austria. Behind him was the first of many locomotives that would soon come to dominate the Austrian Countryside..