Favorite European Railways?

[tworail]

Any Rhatische Bahn fans here? When I was in Europe many years ago I missed the opportunity to travel in Switzerland, where most of the RhB operates.

Check out these pictures! Absolutely stunning scenery!

http://www.rhb.ch/images/gallery/1-3-34.jpg

http://www.rhb.ch/images/gallery/1-3-46.jpg

http://www.rhb.ch/images/gallery/1-3-9.jpg

http://www.rhb.ch/images/gallery/1-3-63.jpg

http://www.rhb.ch/images/gallery/1-3-52.jpg

[tworail]

For anyone wanting to see the nicest RhB garden railway ever:

Andi Engi's RhB Railway (http://www.aengi.com/d/bildergalerien/)

What blows my mind about this setup is that it's actually in the Swiss Mountains, so all the backgrounds ARE the real thing!!

Basically, this guy is my hero :o

[radfan]

For anyone wanting to see the nicest RhB garden railway ever:

Andi Engi's RhB Railway (http://www.aengi.com/d/bildergalerien/)

What blows my mind about this setup is that it's actually in the Swiss Mountains, so all the backgrounds ARE the real thing!!

Basically, this guy is my hero :o

I wish I had the life style to be able to afford that kind of layout:thumbsup:

[tworail]

Yeah.. seems to be doing all right for a hotel proprietor :)

All his track is also LGB stainless steel, which is $$$$$

[tankist]

what was strange is that member of the Russian forum just came back from Switzerland with detailed photo report of ride on RhB.
thats basically a model railway in real size, in its relativley short span it almost as it tried to condence everything: viaducts , extreme curves, tunnels, crazy track work, crazy elevation changes...
and thats not solely turist attraction. they haul actual freight there as well.

http://www.graubunden.com/fileadmin/user_upload/sommer/bahnreise_rhb/bex/bahnreise_bernina-express_RHB5421.jpg

http://www.graubunden.com/fileadmin/user_upload/sommer/bahnreise_rhb/bex/bahnreise_bernina-express_RHB5429.jpg

http://www.michaeltaylor.ca/Ind/618-rhb-c-mt.jpg

[andersley]

I have visited Switzerland on four occasions - but they were family holidays, so with limited railfanning. The whole country is one big full-size train set, which is super-efficient and runs to time (almost always). The RhB is legendary, and the locations shown in the photographs have spawned many a layout!

The metre-gauge railways I have seen are the Furka-Oberalp and Brig-Visp-Zermatt (Now amalgamated and renamed). They are all remarkable, and very modelable! My favourite was the BLS, especially driving my car onto the car-carrying trains through the Lotchberg tunnel (very expensive, but quite an experiance)!

Scans of pictures from my visits can be found on my Fotopic site (link in sig.)

Current Favourite European trains are those in my adopted country, Slovenia.

[Eurostar Italia]

Italian railways from Genova to La Spezia, in the north-west of Italy. The train in the photo is an Frecciabianca train travel from Genova Piazza Principe to Roma Termini. At the head of train the E402B of Trenitalia, that locomotive is used with many domestic train in order to travel at maximum 200 km/h.
Photo by Matteo Rovatti