Cab Ride with Freight Train over Albula Pass - Part 5
The movie shows a ride with freight train #5135 from
Landquart over the famous
Albula Line of the
Rhaetian Railways to
Samedan. The train is pulled by Ge
6/6'' #
701.
In part 5, we see the train operating from Bergün/Bravougn upgrade towards
Preda at the entrance of the
Albula tunnel. Between Bergün and Preda, in a distance of 5 km, a
difference in altitude of over
400 m needed to be overcome by the railway. To maintain a maximum grade of
3.5%, an intricate alignment was devised, which lengthened the line to 12km between the two stations. Two turn back tunnels above Bergün and three spiral tunnels below Preda combined with crisscrossing the
Albula valley four times overcame the engineering problem.
On the run upgrade we pass a slow speed zone where the train has to be able to stop within s
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