1914–1918 A church, a war, and a railwayKostol, vojna a železnica

The church of Saint Anne was built in 1914 and houses began to spread along the valley around it. The same war that started that year produced the thing the village is now known for. Timber was needed and there was no way to move it, so the Orava Composessorate built a narrow-gauge forest railway from the timber yard at Lokca up to Erdútka — 22.6 kilometres of 760-millimetre track, opened on 27 July 1918, four months before the war ended and the empire with it. It was never connected to the public railway network. It was built to carry logs, and that is what it did.Kostol svätej Anny postavili v roku 1914 a domy okolo neho začali pribúdať pozdĺž doliny. Tá istá vojna, ktorá sa v tom roku začala, priniesla to, čím je dnes obec známa. Drevo bolo treba a nebolo ako ho odvážať, a tak Oravský komposesorát postavil úzkorozchodnú lesnú železnicu zo skládky v Lokci hore do Erdútky — 22,6 kilometra koľají s rozchodom 760 milimetrov, otvorenú 27. júla 1918, štyri mesiace pred koncom vojny aj monarchie. S verejnou železničnou sieťou ju nikdy nespojili. Postavili ju na vozenie klátov a presne to robila.