Scenic route
Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway
Realp → Oberwald · Switzerland
- Distance
- 18 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 45 min
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke (DFB)
- Train
- HG 3/4 steam locomotive
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1925
Volunteer-run steam locomotives claw over the 2,160 m Furka Pass past the Rhône Glacier on track abandoned when the base tunnel opened in 1982.
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