 Apart from its own routes in southern Germany the company owned the majority of shares in the Lausitz Railway Company ("Lausitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft") and had a share in the Salzkammergut Lokalbahn AG and the Central Bank for Railway Stocks.The latter had, especially over the West Hungarian Lokalbahn-AG, influence on the numerous railway routes in Hungary with a total length of over 700 kilometers, which had been built by the LAG.During the First World War and the years following, the company had to combat major difficulties.