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BLS Rail-Auto Service |
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Switzerland's BLS AG offers rail-auto service through the Loetschberg Tunnel, the trip taking about 20 minutes to complete. Electric 165 sits with its train at the southern end while it boards cars for the next run north to Kandersteg. |
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8/12/2016 Upload Date: 8/21/2016 8:11:59 AM |
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Goppenstein, CH |
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Loetschberg Tunnel Entrance |
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The southern portal for the Loetschberg Tunnel in Switzerland. The nine-mile bore was opened in 1913 and continues in use today. It's now partially replaced by a much longer 21 mile Loetschberg Base Tunnel opened in 2007 and located 1300' beneath this one. |
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8/12/2016 Upload Date: 8/21/2016 9:26:30 AM |
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Goppenstein, CH |
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Loading the Loetschberg Auto-Rail Train |
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We drive aboard a covered flat car on the BLS-operated auto-rail train through the Loetschberg Tunnel. It takes about 20 minutes to make the trip through the nine-mile bore. |
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8/12/2016 Upload Date: 8/21/2016 9:26:54 AM |
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Goppenstein, CH |
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Loetschberg Auto-Rail train. |
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Don't have a road between two valleys in the Alps? The Swiss operate a train between Goppenstein and Kandersteg that solves the problem. We're boarding the train; you just drive on, pull up as far as possible and ride the train. It takes about 20 minutes to make the trip. |
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8/12/2016 Upload Date: 8/21/2016 9:27:23 AM |
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Goppenstein, CH |
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Swiss Power at Kandersteg |
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A BLS diesel sits in the yard at Kandersteg Switzerland, near the northern portal of the Loetschberg Tunnel. 504 is a 2000HP AM843 class locomotive used for switching and freight duties. |
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8/12/2016 Upload Date: 8/21/2016 8:00:35 AM |
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Kandersteg, CH |
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Train Time at Lauterbrunnen |
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It's about 6PM on a Friday afternoon as trains meet in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. The train on the left is a Wengernalp set that has come down the mountain from Wengen. The one on the right is with the Bernese Oberland Rwy and will soon depart for Interlaken. During the height of the summer tourist season this meet is repeated every thirty minutes. |
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8/12/2016 Upload Date: 8/20/2016 8:06:44 AM |
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Lauterbrunnen, CH |
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Climbing Towards Wengen |
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A Wengernalp Bahn (WAB) rack train climbs the hill into Wengen having come up from Lauterbrunnen. The WAB opened in the 1890s and operates 19KM (12MI) of 2'7.5" narrow gauge track up to, and past, Kleine Scheidegg at the base of the Eiger. Although a major tourist attraction, the railroad is also a lifeline to Wengen, which limits auto traffic. Jungfrau Mountain sits majestically in the background. |
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8/12/2016 Upload Date: 8/20/2016 8:07:28 AM |
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Wengen, CH |
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Wengernalp Bahn at Kleine Scheidegg |
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A two-car Wengernalp Bahn set rests at Kleine Scheidegg on a Saturday morning. These electrified cars date from date from the late '50s and operate on the road's narrow gauge rack system. The structure behind the train is a semi-buried wye, with two legs largely built into the ridge line. |
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8/13/2016 Upload Date: 8/20/2016 8:08:02 AM |
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Kleine Scheidegg, CH |
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Headed for Wengen |
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A Wengernalp Bahn (WAB) train departs Kleine Scheidegg for Wengen and Lauterbrunnen on a Saturday morning. Although originally opened in the 1890s, the WAB is a thoroughly modern railroad that carries thousands of people annually. The structure in the foreground is the shops for the Jungfrau Rwy. |
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8/13/2016 Upload Date: 8/20/2016 8:18:14 AM |
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Kleine Scheidegg, CH |
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Headed for Grindelwald |
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A Wengernalp Bahn (WAB) train set departs Kleine Scheidegg for Grindelwald on a Saturday morning. The WAB rack railroad operates two lines that meet at Kleine Scheidegg, which itself sits at the base of the Eiger. One line runs to Grindelwald, the other to Wengen and Lauterbrunnen. |
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8/13/2016 Upload Date: 8/20/2016 8:08:43 AM |
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Kleine Scheidegg, CH |
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Dropping into Wengen |
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A downhill Wengernalp Bahn (WAB) train enters Wengen, Switzerland. The road has grades of up to 25% and the sound of the rack system fills the cars at this point as they help hold the train against gravity. |
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8/13/2016 Upload Date: 8/20/2016 8:10:00 AM |
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Wengen, CH |
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Arriving Lauterbrunnen |
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A Bernese Oberland Rwy train arrives the mountain town of Lauterbrunnen late on a summer afternoon. The road primarily runs a meter-gauge 12KM line from Interlaken to Lauterbrunnen with frequent passenger service. It uses standard adhesion traction as well as rack assist where necessary due to grades. 312 was built in 1986. |
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8/13/2016 Upload Date: 8/18/2016 7:36:10 PM |
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Lauterbrunnen, CH |
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Train Meet on the WAB |
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A downhill Wengernalpbahn (WAB) train is in the hole while an uphill counterpart claws its way towards Wengen, all under a rock fence. 116 dates from the mid to late '50s and represents the older cars still used on the line. |
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8/14/2016 Upload Date: 8/20/2016 8:17:41 AM |
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Lauterbrunnen, CH |
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Electric Boxcab on the Wengernalp Bahn |
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Locomotive 64 is a 1926-build two-axle electric unit still used for switching at Lauterbrunnen by the Wengernalp Bahn. The WAB is a 2' 7.5" rack railroad. |
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8/14/2016 Upload Date: 8/20/2016 8:11:15 AM |
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Lauterbrunnen, CH |
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Freight Power on the Wengernalp Bahn |
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Locomotive 32 is a 1995-build two-axle electric unit on the Wengernalp Bahn and is used to haul short freight trains up to Wengen, typically in cars like 308 sitting behind. |
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8/14/2016 Upload Date: 8/20/2016 8:12:14 AM |
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Lauterbrunnen, CH |
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MGB Eastbound |
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The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) is a private Swiss railroad running 144KM from Zermatt, near the Matterhorn, east to Disentis. It's a meter-gauge electrified line with supplemental rack assist where needed. Traffic is largely passenger with some freight. |
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8/14/2016 Upload Date: 8/18/2016 7:36:28 PM |
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Filet, CH |
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MGB headed for Visp. |
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This Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) train has come out of the mountain resort city of Zermatt and is headed for Brig and Fiesch. The MGB is a meter-gauge operation with both EMUs, like this set and locomotive-pulled trains. |
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8/14/2016 Upload Date: 8/18/2016 7:36:47 PM |
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Randa, CH |
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MGB End of the Line |
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A locomotive-pulled Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) train sits in the station at Zermatt, Switzerland on a Sunday afternoon. The mountain resort town of Zermatt is the western end of the MGB and is normally accessible only by train. |
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8/14/2016 Upload Date: 8/18/2016 7:37:05 PM |
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Zermatt, CH |
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Going Up Hill on the GGB |
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A Gornergrat Bahn (GGB) train runs uphill on the line's meter-gauge rack operation. The 5.8 mile line starts in the resort town of Zermatt and ends at 10,000 feet near the Matterhorn. |
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8/14/2016 Upload Date: 8/21/2016 7:48:28 AM |
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Zermatt, CH |
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At the Summit |
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A Gornergrat Bahn (GGB) train sits at Gornergrat, the summit of its line from the Swiss resort town of Zermatt 9.3KM (5.8 mi) up the Alps. The station sits at an elevation of 10,100' and allows an impressive view of the Matterhorn among 28 other mountain peaks exceeding 4000 Meters in height. The GGB is an electrified rack railroad running on meter-gauge tracks |
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8/14/2016 Upload Date: 8/21/2016 7:47:06 AM |
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Gornergrat, CH |
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The Matterhorn Railway |
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A Gornergrat Bahn (GGB) train comes down hill from the summit at Gornergrat with the Matterhorn touched by clouds off the nose. |
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8/14/2016 Upload Date: 8/21/2016 7:47:58 AM |
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Gornergrat, CH |
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Coming Down Hill on the GGB |
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A downhill Gornergrat Bahn (GGB) train approaches the station at Riffleberg, which is located about four miles above Zermatt and a mile below the summit. |
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8/14/2016 Upload Date: 8/21/2016 7:47:30 AM |
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Zermatt, CH |
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Driving off the Auto-Rail train. |
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The ride through the Loetschberg Tunnel complete, we drive off the train, hot on the markers of the Volvo ahead of us. |
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8/14/2016 Upload Date: 8/21/2016 9:27:50 AM |
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Kandersteg, CH |
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Headed for Interlaken Ost |
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An eastbound SBB train departs Interlaken West station on its way to the other depot in town, Interlaken Ost (East). The locomotive is in the push mode and is running away from the photographer. |
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8/15/2016 Upload Date: 8/18/2016 7:37:22 PM |
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Interlaken, CH |
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ICE Arriving Interlaken West |
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A DB Inter City Express (ICE) train arrives Interlaken West station about five minutes after leaving its starting point at the city's Ost (East) depot. This train is bound for Bern, Basel and, eventually, Berlin Germany. |
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8/15/2016 Upload Date: 8/18/2016 7:37:42 PM |
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Interlaken, CH |
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