 From 1 January 2000, the Kisvasutak Baráti Köre Egyesület ("Association of Narrow Gauge Railway Friends") loans the track and the properties from the forestry.This was the first time the Kemence railway – renamed to its current name, Kemence Forest Museum Railway, referring to the museal rolling stock, most of which was saved from other 600 mm gauge railways that ceased to exist – became a tourist railway.In the first four years, the railway operated in a short, but after the flood, intactly remained 1.8 km section between Kemence and Godóvár-Strand.