Because, following the completion of the construction work, the line had to be kept going for maintenance reasons, it was decided to open the railway to tourists as well.

The Reisseck Mountain Railway Company (Reißeck-Höhenbahngesellschaft mbH) was founded in 1969, although public services did not begin until 16 September 1965.

This was divided into two adhesion sections to the Hochalmsee and the Radlsee, most of which ran in a roughly 3-kilometre-long tunnel and was only authorised for goods transported for Verbund.

These lines terminated at about 2,400 m. On 1 August 2014 heavy rain washed away parts of the trackbed of the mountain railway.

Because this work could not initially be carried out due to delays in the construction of Reißeck II Power Station, tourist services ended for the foreseeable future at the Schoberboden.