Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Alpen

This is the Chur railway station. The tracks in the front are for the Bernina Line, while the other tracks are behind the station.

This is Rhaetian Railway #3505, one of the newer trains on the Bernina Express (and the Bernina Line generally), a Class ABe 8/12 Allegra EMU, built by Stadler Rail sometime between 2009 and 2011. These units were among those which replaced the ABe 4/4 II Class EMU's that had been in service when I rode the line in 1998. The Class ABe 4/4 III EMU's remain in service, being newer. There are also a few locomotive-hauled trains, using Gem 4/4 dual power locomotives (electric or diesel). This photo gives a hint, but doesn't show clearly that the Bernina Line leaves Chur via the streets, much like a tramway.

Here's another shot of a mountain in the clouds. I have no idea which one it is.

Here's another shot that I got of the train.

Being in the mountains on a day in which there was sporadic rain, we passed through a number of clouds. Some of these, of course, were not possible to photograph as they were simply grey haze, but this one was better.

This was one of the few towns on the Glacier Express route that I was able to identify. The reason was that we passed the station and I got a picture of the sign (the photo was a bit blurred to show here).

Actually, the "Visp District" is a bit of a guess, since film shots don't have EXIF data. This was one of the better shots that I got, showing the train on a curve. The Glacier Express is, of course, designed for photography, but a problem that I had for the whole trip was that the glass reflected too much, as you can sort of see on the right here. The previous shot of the bridges has a bit of a reflection in the middle, too, but I posted both of these anyway.

I think these are technically viaducts, given the arches, although at least the one in the foreground looks like it could be for a road. I really know nothing about these, other than that I took this photo from the Glacier Express shortly after leaving Zermatt.

This EMU is, if I'm not mistaken, a ABDeh 8/8 Class, although the Wikipedia page seems to lack a comprehensive photo collection to go with the list of classes. For that matter, the Wikipedia article lacks even a roster.

This shot portrays a rockier part of the area we were in.

This is one of my better shots of the train, which was an EMU like most of what the BVZ runs.

I'm not certain, but this may in fact be one of the less-known faces of the Matterhorn (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). I make this assumption based on the fact that we were approaching Zermatt by this point.

Here's a look at one of the more moderate grades in the world to use a cog. I took this seconds after Picture 1.

Many cog (or rack) railways in Switzerland, and for that matter the world, only use cog technology for banking, running conventionally. The BVZ Zermatt-Bahn is one such railway.

Also speaking of unknown names, I don't know the names of these mountains, so any help in identifying them would be welcome. As always, the view was hard to match anywhere.

The end of the first leg of my trip, which involved a ride on the BOB narrow-gauge (which I have video of but no photos on the way in) ended in Grindelwald, in Switzerland. This was only my second visit to the Swiss Alps, as the Alps are spectacular but expensive. On the left is one of the many hotels in Grindelwald, which is a tourist town, and then of course the church on the right. I don't know the name of it.