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The Golden Pass in Lucerne main station. The GoldenPass Line is a tourist-orientated train route in the Swiss Alps with its base in Montreux. It is not a legal entity but operates and manages the following companies: Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway (MOB) MOB operates the following lines: Montreux – Zweisimmen. Zweisimmen – Lenk.
GoldenPass Express. The GoldenPass Express is a luxury railway service that operates between Montreux, on Lake Geneva, and Interlaken, in the Bernese Oberland, in Switzerland. The train is owned and operated jointly by the Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway (MOB) and BLS AG (BLS). As such, it uses the MOB's 1,000 mm ( 3 ft in) gauge line between ...
There are other Golden Pass trains without VIP seating (dome end cars) and these depart Montreux at 7:h45, 11:49, 14:47 and 17:45 (Trains 2112, 2124, 2228 and 2134) and from Zweisimmen at 8:26, 10:26, 14:26 and 17:05 (Trains 2111, 3115, 3123 and 2229). These trains are locomotive hauled and use stock not required for the trains with VIP seating.
The Furka Pass lies at the upper end of the Rhône valley. The Oberalp Pass is the highest point on this line at 2033 metres, and lies at the upper end of the Rhine valley. The total length of the railway was 100 kilometres, and the line runs from Disentis to Brig. Brig is a rail junction with the SBB and BLS and sits at the north end of the ...
The view from the summit. The Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye railway line is an electrically operated rack railway in Switzerland with a track gauge of 800 mm ( 2 ft 71⁄2 in ). The line connects the resort of Montreux, on the shores of Lake Geneva, with the summit of the Rochers de Naye mountain. The line operates via the village of Glion ...
Get a behind-the-scenes look at what keeps "The Polar Express Train Ride" chugging in OKC. It runs through Dec. 27 at the Oklahoma Railway Museum.
The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y, WP&YR) ( reporting mark WPY) is a Canadian and U.S. Class III 3 ft ( 914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon. An isolated system, it has no direct connection to any other railroad. Equipment, freight and passengers are ferried by ship through ...
During 2022 and 2023 the Tennessee Pass route was at the center of controversy because, with the proposed Uinta Basin Rail Project construction in Utah, the Tennessee Pass was expected to be reactivated for the shipment of trains loaded with waxy-crude Oil, due to the shortening of travel miles between Dotsero and Pueblo, where the trains enter ...