Scenic route
Pilatus Railway
Alpnachstad → Pilatus Kulm · Switzerland
- Distance
- 5 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 30 min
- Top speed
- 12 km/h
- Operator
- Pilatus-Bahnen
- Train
- Stadler rack railcars
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1889
The steepest rack railway on Earth — 48 % grades since 1889, with Locher’s horizontal cog wheels gripping a ladder no ordinary train could climb.
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