Angelroda, which was up to 26 m deep, and the movement of earth for an embankment near Plaue, which was 825 m long and up to 8.5 m high. 90,000 m³ of rock was placed for this embankment below the track and 150,000 m³ of rock was placed above the track bed. The project used a funicular, which ran on a wooden trestle which had been built for it. Rock was dumped from the funicular down on the embankment. The wooden trestle was left in the completed embankment. Rocks along almost the whole line had to be loosened with explosives. 2,950 kg of dynamite, 8,810 kg of black powder and 115,000 percussion caps were used for about 10,000 firings. The line has grades from Plaue of 1:50 to 1:70 and sections with radii of only 300 m as it passes through a genuine mountain range. The largest bridge on the line is the Marien bridge near Plaue. It spanned former federal highway 4 at line-kilometre 15.9. The biggest bridge on the line is the arched viaduct in Angelroda. It is 26.5 m high, 100.4 m long and consists of three spans. 253 t of steel were used for the bridge. It was built in a very innovative way as a projected bridge supported by auxiliary scaffolds. For this purpose, the individual sections of the bridge were mounted on the projections of the viaduct and moved over the bridge piers by being hauled by cable. The position of the entire bridge on a sharply curving track made this bridge construction difficult and also posed a challenge for the designers. A curiosity is also the construction of the retaining walls at the bases of the bridge piers. Here, the supporting walls were not inclined, as is normal custom, but were stepped instead. It is not known why the greater and self-reinforcing stability of a sloped retaining wall was not used. The original steel lattice structures of the two piers were covered in concrete in 1905 to increase their load bearing capacity. In contrast to the steel pillars, the rebuilt concrete bridge piers were again designed to receive the superstructures for a second track that was never installed. On the new, wider piers, a new, stronger bridge was built parallel to the existing bridge and the track was swung onto it and the old superstructure, with the exception of the old bridge deck,