One of the numerous viaducts bridging the mountain valleys is shown on the coin’s obverse behind the Steinbrück, the locomotive specially built for the railway in 1848 by the Wien-Gloggnitzer Railway Works. Retired in 1879. The oldest existing Austrian steam locomotive. She was built with American locomotives in mind, which can be seen from the arrangement of the cylinders and the additional truck.

The engine “Steinbrück” can be seen today in the Technical Museum in Vienna.

Engraver: Herbert Wähner

Depicts the harbour city of Trieste with the locomotive Type 17c372 getting out of the viaduct leading to the railway station. In the background sailing ships can be seen.

The Free Port of Trieste is a port in the Adriatic Sea in Trieste, Italy. In the 1770s and 1780s, the Trieste Company (sometimes known as the "Austrian East India Company") attempted to connect directly the Habsburg Empire to the Indian and Chinese markets. It appeared that it was necessary to enlarge the port infrastructure and the railway network. In 1857 the Südbahn (Southern) Railway line became operational along the northeastern route: Trieste, Postojna, Ljubljana, Graz, Vienna, with further links to Budapest and the Balkans. The railway element was central in the design of the port structures. In Trieste it was the Lagerhäuser system of Northern European ports that was used as a model. A French engineer, Paulin Talabot, designed the project. 1868 marks the beginning of Trieste as a commercial port whose infrastructures were to be developed in four different periods.

Engraver: Thomas Pesendorfer