{"id":18487,"date":"2017-05-13T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T09:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18487"},"modified":"2017-05-12T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T13:38:07","slug":"unexpected-extras-at-grindlewald-grund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/unexpected-extras-at-grindlewald-grund\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Extras at Grindlewald-Grund."},"content":{"rendered":"

Extra trains are always a bonus; but an unexpected extra using antique equipment is a real treat!<\/p>\n

Three weeks ago on our exploration of Swiss railways, Denis McCabe and I were photographing the steeply graded rack railway on the Wengernalbahn near Grindlewald-Grund\u00a0where the scheduled passenger trains operate on half hour intervals.<\/p>\n

In between the regular scheduled trains, we caught a wire train-extra and this passenger extra with heritage equipment.<\/p>\n

All in the metaphoric shadow of the Eiger and the Jungfrau, two of the most famous Swiss mountain in the Swiss Bernese Alps.<\/p>\n

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When two trains really are better than one: A wire train ascends toward Kleine Scheidegg from Grindelwald-Grund, while in the distance a passenger train climbs in the opposite direction toward\u00a0Grindelwald.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Special bonus, a Wengernalbahn heritage train works the rack on its way up the mountain. FujiFilm X-T1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Extra trains are always a bonus; but an unexpected extra using antique equipment is a real treat! Three weeks ago on our exploration of Swiss railways, Denis McCabe and I were photographing the steeply graded rack railway on the Wengernalbahn near Grindlewald-Grund\u00a0where the scheduled passenger trains operate on half hour intervals. In between the regular … Continue reading Unexpected Extras at Grindlewald-Grund.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[48],"tags":[4189,4188,4187,3498,2166],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wengernalbahn_heritage_train_Grindlewald_Grund_DSCF4164.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Ob","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18488,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions\/18488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}