Järnvägen hade svårigheter med att köpa bra lok och spenderade mycket
pengar på lok som kunde bara användas under
byggnationen. Kolla loksidan för mera information.?>
Under byggnationen köpte järnvägen 66 stycken litt. NNM av GDJ.
Vagnarna byggdes på 1870-talet. Efter byggnationen reviderades nio av dessa
vagnar till användning i allmän trafik, medan några användes som
tjänstevagnar. Resten av vagnarna användes för grusning. Järnvägen köpte
också två slutna vagnar från BJ för byggnationen.
Alla godsvagnar var begagnade och köpes från Vagnuthyringsbolaget (VUB). Järnvägen köpte 20 stycken
av litt. N3 och 13 stycken av litt. G1. Det fanns också 24 stycken litt. N3
för uthyrning.
Just före konkursen ägde järnvägen inga personvagnar, men mera om detta
på de andra sidorna.
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The Railway had difficulties
in buying engines and ended up wasting
money on engines that they couldn't
use after construction was complete. More on that on the engines page.
Inititally, they had been
hoped that they could lease equipment from BJ (Bergslagarnas Järnväg) [BJ was
the largest private railway
in Sweden and was the only
connection that ÅmÅJ had to the rail network,directly
and indirectly] much as
DVVJ (Dals Västra Värmland Järnväg) had done. As both ÅmÅJ and DVVJ were being built at the same time, it must have been seen as a reasonable idea. However, BJ was not sympathetic to ÅmÅJ, and as a
result, ÅmÅJ was forced to purchase all of their own equipment, which proved another drain on their already stretched budget.
For the construction phase,
ÅmÅJ
bought 66 ancient flat cars from GDJ (Gävle-Dalarna
Railway), built in the 1870's. In addition, they bought two old box cars from BJ (Bergslagarnas
Railway) from the 1880's. Nine of the flat cars were upgraded
to allow them to be used in general traffic, while a few of them were converted
for maintenance of the way.
The rest of the flat cars were
for ballasting.
With the exception
of the passenger cars,
all of the rolling stock was
used. All of the goods
stock was purchased
from a leasing company (VUB) and these included flat cars (20) and box cars (13).
In addition, the railway leased
an addition 24 flat cars.
By the time the railway
went into bankruptcy, it did not own its own
passenger wagons, but more about that on the other pages.
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