Take a Slow Train Ride Through the Swiss Alps – It’s Pretty Frightening

19 Comments on Take a Slow Train Ride Through the Swiss Alps – It’s Pretty Frightening

1. Imagine the guys laying that track!

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2. There is a cog railroad to the top of Pikes Peak that is a fun ride too.

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3. Beautiful scenery!

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4. Been through Switzerland by train. Stops in Bern and Lake Lucerne (famous for the inspiration of Deep Purple’s Smoke On the Water).
   Amazing scenery.

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5. Frightening it is not. Beautiful, interesting, exciting and fun would be more accurate.

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6. BFH take a drive along the Going to the Sun Road in Montana’s Glacier NP. Quite a few holy moley twists and turns and drop offs to get your heart pump in’!

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7. That’s a funicular! There’s one in Paris, France near where I used to live.

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8. Yeah, between this and the New York City subway I can see the similarity in frightening.

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9. I’d rather ride that train than put up scaffolding in a third world country.

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10. I take it their trains derail less often than ours do.

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11. A little steeper than the Mt Washington cog railway!
    I was watching, thinking, this isn’t so bad. Then the ten minute mark came.
    Whew!!
    I think the walking path was scarier!

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12. I like the steering wheel!

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13. Been on that cog railway several times. The view is spectacular overlooking the southern Alps towards Italy. The cable cars to the top are a little more intimidating.

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14. Beautiful! Every so often I watch a YT train video, and this one really stands out. Especially at 2x playback speed. Frightening? Not at all!

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15. I travelled by car over the Alps into Italy. Yes, Georgius.

    Since then, I’ve often wondered why there are so many beautiful green pastures up there. I concluded, without any evidence whatever, that the trees were probably cut down for firewood or building materials over the last couple of Millenia and those areas never got re-seeded. Of course, those pastures are great for the cows.

    There are still lots of evergreen trees there, but I think 2000 years ago there were probably a lot more.

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16. I was there in 2014. Beautiful!

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17. Thanks for that. It was a beautiful ride. I wonder how often they replace the gearing on the trolly cars?

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18. Scarier? The drive on the bus to the top of Machu Pichu.

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19. I have to ask…..what the hell does a train car on a track need a STEERING WHEEL for…

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