1891–1894 The village becomes a railway junctionZ dediny sa stáva železničný uzol

Under Austria-Hungary the railway turned Plešivec from a village on a road into a junction. The main line already ran through the Slaná valley; between 1891 and 1893 a branch was built west towards Muráň, and on 13 November 1894 the first train ran on a second branch, north up the Štítnik valley to the paper mill at Slavošovce. Three lines meeting at one small station meant a station master, a goods yard, engine crews, and a reason for everybody in two valleys to come here. The census of 1910 counted 2,393 people in the village — more than live here now.Za Rakúsko-Uhorska premenila železnica Plešivec z dediny pri ceste na železničný uzol. Hlavná trať už viedla dolinou Slanej; v rokoch 1891 – 1893 postavili odbočku na západ k Muráňu a 13. novembra 1894 prešiel prvý vlak po druhej odbočke, na sever Štítnickou dolinou k papierni v Slavošovciach. Tri trate na jednej malej stanici znamenali prednostu, nákladisko, rušňové čaty a dôvod, prečo sem chodili ľudia z dvoch dolín. Sčítanie v roku 1910 napočítalo v obci 2 393 obyvateľov — viac, než tu žije dnes.