Portal:Trains/Selected picture/Week 34, 2007

Rhaetian Railway's Glacier Express on the Landwasser Viaduct entering the Landwasser Tunnel.

The Glacier Express is a 7½ hour railway journey across 291 bridges, through 91 tunnels and across the Oberalp Pass at 2033 m in altitude. The entire line is metre gauge, and large portions of it use a rack-and-pinion system both for ascending steep grades and to control the descent of the train on the back side of those grades.