Coming down by rail car

This is the steepest rack railway in the world and runs directly from the top of Mount Pilatus to the base at Alpnachstad. The journey up is half-an-hour while the journey down takes a cautious forty minutes

Lucerne

September 29th 2006
Lucerne We were up nice and early as we planned to journey up to the top of Mount Pilatus. I was really disappointed as it was grey and very foggy and I figured we wouldn't be able to see anything. How wrong I was!! The coach took us to Kriens where we hopped on a cable car that took us up to Fräkmüntegg, which is about half way up the mountain. After only a few minutes we had ri ... read more

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