125 Years of the Pilatus Cogwheel Railway | Euromaxx
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- The Pilatus Railway in Switzerland is the steepest cog railway in the world - and it's considered an engineering marvel. It leads from Lake Lucerne up to the top of Mount Pilatus. Not only does this allow visitors to see spectacular views, it also benefits Swiss tourism and the hotel located at the top. 2014 marks the railway's 125th anniversary, so we hopped aboard for the ride of a lifetime.
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Such a great engineering feat!
Respect to the people who designed, built, maintained and operated the railway overtime!
What a nice trip! I took the boat from Lucerne to the cog railway, then took the railway up to the peak, then took the first of the cable cars down, and walked the rest of the way down through the beautiful Swiss countryside, back to the bus stop, and back to the center of Lucerne. Wonderful all-day outing.
I feel people dont fully appreciate the whole 'work completed in 400 days' bit.
for the amount of track laid, the incline, and of course the Cog wheel system...
It takes more than 400 days on average to complete that much railway on FLAT ground with todays technology....
Well, in those ages people actually did something. Nowadays they just sit at the construction site.
Dream Wolf that’s when people had to actually work.
I wonder what the fatality/serious injury rate was on this construction though.
Modern construction is slower, but so much safer.
The climb of the hill is amazing !
When i visited this in the 90s, even as a kid, i was far happier when it broke down at the top and got to look at it from the outside.
Absolutely beautiful! I couldn't afford to ride it, much less the hotel atop, and the airfare to get there! Whew! Lotsa monies.
Instantly made me think of the Grazer Schloßbergbahn (Austria):
that opened 10 years later but is a cable train with 2 cars going in opposite directions to significantly reduce the required power. But a selfdriving rackrailway at that incline is nice.
ABaumstumpf Two opposing cars on a string! Wonderful idea.
That's pretty much standard on every railway going up a mountain. It couldn't be used on the Pilatus because it's too steep and the train would derail.
amazing, like they say, when there's a cogwheel there's a way
This damn video has been in my recommended for weeks. FINE I'LL WATCH IT!!!!
The Manitou & Pikes Peak Railway, at Manitou Springs, Colorado uses a double cog, or Abt, system. The maximum gradient is 9%. This is the highest operational cog railway stopping at the summit of Pike's Peak, a bit over 14,000 ft or 4267 meters. Manitou Springs altitude is 1,954 meters.
400 DAYS to complete this 125 years ago.
Now, let's talk about California's HIgh Speed Raid project, funded initially three THOUSAND, six HUNDRED, and fifty two DAYS ago, with not a foot of track laid.
oil lobby.
@@biomecaman3514 Sorry but not that simple. This is a Blue state. All they can do is spend money, not produce anything.
So cool! In NH there is a cog train for My Washington. Built around 1860....but Idon't think anywhere near this incline. But fun to be on. Would love to ride this one and the one CO here in the US.
Amazing and looks safer and more reliable than cable cars.
Neat!
I’ve been up there and it was the scariest day of my life
And today it's a rollercoaster system.
Damn that 80's music. Superior aesthetics.
It would take 20-years nowadays, to get beyond the planning stage :-)
Germany will break another world-record: 125 years ongoing construction of the airport BER
"(...)beschlossenen Ausbaues wurde der Konsensbeschluss aus dem Jahr 1996(...)"
after planning only one decade they rushed in building at 2006
and another decade later they didn't open it at 2016 and we might be looking forward to an everlasting processus of postponement after postponement.
Chet, regulations aren't the problem. And you wouldn't want to live in a deregulated world, if you seriously think about what it would mean. Simple fact is, when there's a will there's a way, but today there's not a lot of will.
Chet, regulations are annoying when they slow or halt building projects, and many can seem to be redundant, but regulations, even the dopey ones are usually put in place for a reason- often to prevent someone being killed during the building or after completion. In the good old days builders used to factor in how many workers would be killed in a large scale project.
Chet that's not possible : we invent new technologies faster and faster, some become obsolete before we even know all their dangers. Imagine if we just decide the next super-asbestos shouldn't be regulated... and then find out it gives people turbo-cancer ?
The world we live in is plenty fast, people just don't think about that. We can afford to be cautious.
Chet, unless you're telling me you know 100% of all regulations, like maybe you're a lawyer specializing in regulations, you can't give a number like 99%. Maybe that's 99% of the 100 regulations _you_ personally know about. Or more likely, that's a number you pulled out of your @$$. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt : if 99% of all regulations are what you say they are, then it should be easy to give us a few examples.
You sound like someone whose profit margin has been impacted by having to provide safety equipment to your workforce. I've had to work with a _lot_ of dangerous equipment and I'm certainly glad there are regulations that force my employers to buy safety gloves and steel-toe boots, and to install fume extractors, to name but a few things.
it's funny to watch this in english. because i'm from switzerland.
MrTheRythan I'd say so 😂😂😂🤣😂
S lustige sich ja, wenn er afod dütsch z rede und du dänisch so: "yes, endlich normale sproch" und denne Fön sie ah z übersetze xD
Originally was STEAM powered!!! DAM great machinery
I like the design of the rack and pinon. the only ones I seen before was a vertical pinon gear.
A double pantograph with ice and snow scrappers leading would not lose power.
take your head out of your arse
You must be looking in a mirror. That is yours up mine.
theres a cogwheel railway in australia in the blue mountains at the perisher ski resort.
was this the inspiration for grand budapest hotel?
I knew i wasnt the only one who wondered about that!
Tamsak done sis
Gotta hand it to the Swiss to get amazing things done on time... or even before that (Gotthardt tunnel)
And the final comment:
It never took on, cable railways took over but it still is an engineering marvel to this day.
The Betamax of steep slope railways. (Or whatever technology most recently failed because it did not meet secondary requirements.)
I wanna go on that train...
And why is it hard work to drive this Train, he sit down and pull and handle,,,wow yes verry verry hard job..
Nadejda Schmidt I would think the hardest part of the job is to keep the train from running away, particularly when going down hill.
If only they had this in the
shinning
1:42 It doesn't show in the vid, but those samples at the parking lot are proudly stamped "Krupp".
Not sure about "ever", but if you wanted top-grade steel at that time is was Krupp or maybe Bessemer. Even Manchester, who obviously does not like the Krupp business, admits that.
the guy who's translating at 3:20 soudns like the voice actor of Jiriya from naruto :o
The Pike's peak cog railway is steeper. It's in Colorado, USA.
Casimir Gore
Did that tour early 80's, Great views.
It was, but the steep part has been gone for almost 30 years. Now it's only half as steep as Pilatus.
Joe Black
Interesting, wasn't aware of that.
Sadly couple years ago a huge fire went through there. I'm Not up to date on end result.
I went on the train this summer
can the train stop ✋ safely if something blocks the track
It is more like an ELEVATOR than a railway.
Honesty Counts But u gay
retro fit with regenerative braking on descent, save big on power, js
0:55 Couldnt we screw some proximity sensors in front of it these days?
The original cogwheels are still in use!!!!? Gezzz
I call bullshit
if they’re well maintained the steel can last virtually indefinitely
Grand Budapest?
Deutsche Welle Switzerland. Jetzt in Farbe und buunt... ;)
Oh... I've been searching 1 hour to find this video... everyone leave a like!
Thanks, Edward Chan! This is one of our most popular videos right now, even though it's four years old. :-)
It would be hell of the ride down if brakes malfunction XD
wow, that japanese guy was speaking spanish!
He's definitely not speaking Japanese... Thai maybe?
Antonio Criado Diaz thought he was south american
He could be a Peruvian, or he could also be a Filipino. They speak Spanish.
There are plenty Japanese who live in South America. Especially Brazil.
No, he was speakin spanish not as native, but as a student (Im a spaniard and I can tell). Of course there are large ethnic-japanese communities both in Brazil and Peru, but I think this was a japanese citizen tourist.
Does it generate electricity on the way down?
Probably not
Should this be 'Narrow Gauge' railway at 36 seconds ?
350,000 people a year? That seems high.
I wonder if the roller-coaster method has ever been attempted as a solution.
Couldn't they install a battery system on train that's always charged up and when it looses power on the ice it keeps going and once it gains power back it charges the battery back up while it's still moving. I'm sure there would be customers in the winter when the view totally changes.
That would require a lot more work. Wear on the tracks would be significantly higher, and having to carry heavy batteries makes the train more costly, more error prone and less efficient.
And there is little to do in that hotel in the winter. The terrain is unsuited for skiing and snowboarding so in the winter the most people do is snowshoeing and ski tours. Not something that many people do, specially in a country where you can do that pretty much everywhere.
that or they could atleast use the steam engine's
Honestly though, you wouldn't need more than a hundred kilos in batteries maximum to help it get past intermittent lines. That would hardly have any perceivable effect on the wear and tear, and I fail to see how it would make it more error prone. We are talking about powering it for only a couple of meters after all, not the whole trip.
they could just allow 2 passengers less.
It wouldn't be hard to add some backup power to get over bad spots in the line, or switch to steam engines or even a internal combustion engine, but he never got into the effects of ice on the cogs and tracks, which could be worse. Snow being packed into the cogs and rack would soon turn into a real problem.
yet another place I'll never be able to visit.
Why not use electrical engine & recharge batteries using the descent ?
Wow, If only we could build stuff on-time and on-budget now.
Also, I wouldn’t say cog railways didn’t catch on. They aren’t nearly as popular as funiculars, but they are more suited to certain situations. Funiculars (or cable railways, as this video calls them) are great for shorter, steeper railways. They aren’t very good for long railways, however, as the cables can get very long and unwieldy.
Annoying, I cannot find the longest funicular in the world, but I would imagine it wouldn’t be much longer than a few kilometers. I do know the longest aerial ropeway (another method is of cable propelled transit) in the world is just over 8km, meaning there needs to be a lot of cable, which is heavy!
The Pikes Peak Cog Railway is the longest cog railway in the world, and is14.5 km in length, which would be quite a lot of cable to haul! And, the most recent rack railway I can find is from 1997!
Interesting, but I got distracted by the thought that someone had built a hotel in an area that seemed so inaccessible...yet they had 3000 guests a year? How did the guests arrive before the train was built?
I like to watch probably either by foot or carriage up the mountain path
there's a main path but it takes twice the amount of time to reach it
There are several paths up the mountain. The main path. on the south side, parallels or crosses the railway in many places. Advertised walking time is around 5 hours. A very fit person can do it in three, and I have seen the Swiss Olympic team training there and they literally flew past me when I could do it in 3 hours. The other main route is on the north side and has a couple of steep sections but is still do-able for the average hiker. Then are a couple of routes that require a bit of scrambling and a good sense of balance.
A Gear Wheel.
If he thinks running that train is hard work, he should try working any one of the jobs I've _ever_ had.
If you have such an easy job that your biggest problem is maintaining focus and not wandering off daydreaming, you probably should probably refrain from whining about how difficult your job is.
"Cable railways."
Dangling from a wire 500 feet over a valley...
It's an odd use of the word railway, isn't it!
THIS SYSTEM HAD THE ADDED ADVANTAGE OF BEING ABLE TO GO ROUND A CURVED TRACK. A STRAIGHT TRACK WOULD PROBABLY CAUSED A LOT MORE EXCAVATION TO PREPARE A STRAIGHT ROUTE FOR CABLE DRIVE.
miksal26, please "refrain from using upper letters because this could be seen as shouting": www.dw.com/en/dws-netiquette-policy-rules-for-feedback-and-discussions/a-18285540 - ws
its called rack and pinion
They don’t make them like they used to
United States cog railway in New Hampshire on mount Washington was first
no one cares
And that's cool too.
ME ME MEME ME ME
but not nearly that high and steep.
England did it first over 50 years earlier.
Put batteries in them and charge on the way down! :-)
You don't need batteries for that, its already connected to an electric grid.
3:47 Why are there Chinese characters in a railway in Switzerland?
Because there are many Chinese Tourists in Switzerland.
Wow... this was actually in an anime. I thought it was fake.
Suban Grg
Could you tell me the name of the anime?
have a nice day/night
fricking weebs
oh ffs
Renan Venâncio its called "Rail wars"
Fruit500 weebs dont ride a motorcycle. Or go out. Or have friends.
What happens if the brakes fail 😁😁😁😚😚😚
fun time?
raccoon681 yeah 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'd hope there's a worm gear somewhere in the drive train and not just those cogs. Then that type of issue is negated completely by a locked drivetrain that can't freewheel. It'd only be able to move when powered up or down.
yah but where's the fun in that?
roller coaster
meanwhile in africa
some dude I hear they're doing great things with mud and sticks these days.
Slappy like the old saying, "stick with what you're good at".
I hear they're bringing back slavery nowadays. Guess Britain should have stuck around.
Mickey Mouse appears at 0:32
(0:36) - She says "...narrow gorge railway..." It think she means "...narrow gauge..."
My guess is she's reading from a script and "gauge" is a word that she's simply unfamiliar with.
This is why you should always use people with technical knowledge to narrate technical content.
It gets to me, this kind of thing. (As I have just made very obvious).
Bodragon, you could be right, although it's more likely a voicing mistake than unfamiliarity with the term. I tried to find the script but sadly it is no longer in our system. - ws
Why is everyone in Switzerland speaking Spanish?
Tomartyr, Spanish?/ fab
a narrow "gorge" railway eh? That is not how 'gauge' is pronounced - you'd think the narrator would check these things before reading then script! GAUGE as in GAGE!
@Paul Severs Thanks Paul, you're totally right. The word "gauge" is just so irresistably tempting to pronounce it like "Paul" 😉
nope..
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I totally understood what the guy said but what the hell did his asian girlfriend say
a minute long fking ad...
2:10 SHUT UP ENGLISH NARRATOR
cant understand what hes saying :c
In what way can the operation of an electric train be described as 'chugging'?
'Steering the railway...'?
Who writes this rubbish? Shouldn't people who are competent be given the job?
Since DW is a German entity, perhaps just lost in the translation into English????
It’s a direct translation from “steuerung” which is controlling/steering. Don’t be so harsh, choosing exactly the right translation so it works in all dialects of English is no easy task.
.....oh and “chugging” also isn’t too bad when translated in Google (tuckernd - a new word to me in German) “to wheeze or struggle uphill, to sound like an engine running slowly”........
Chugging is also used in English to describe something moving slowly and steadily
No it isn't. it's used to describe something that 'chugs'.
This doesn't.
2:55 the most disgusting sight you can see when travelling.
Jude Lau because... why?
Jude Lau, please refrain from offensive and discriminatory remarks and observe DW's netiquette: www.dw.com/en/dws-netiquette-policy/a-5300954. /ph
I though there was an insect near the window (or a spider) and just realized you were talking about the people on the train; Could you elaborate why you think those passengers are disgusting?
I've seen disgusting people on trains (gropers, thug wannabes, people eating food and spilling sauce everywhere, etc) and the ones in the video seen to be quite decent people.
Calm down guys, he's probably referring to people in general, not a specific group.
My cousin calls them Invasive species.