 In 1908, the Company “Chemin de Fer Electric Leukerbad” was founded but the road quickly dominated the access to the village and the trains stopped in 1967.The cable-car to the top of Gemmi Pass was built in 1957 and the one to Torrent Alp in 1970-72.Beginning in the 1980s, the municipality under president Otto G. Loretan began to undertake massive investments into infrastructure.