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The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn is a narrow gauge railway line and a railway company (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn AG, MGB) in Switzerland. The track width is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in). It was created in 2003 through an amalgamation of Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO) and BVZ Zermatt-Bahn (BVZ). The name comes from the Matterhorn and St. Gotthard Pass.
The Matterhorn Museum in Zermatt is a cultural-natural museum whose main theme is the Matterhorn. The museum is in the form of a reconstituted mountain village consisting of 14 houses (church, hotel, huts and granaries), and relates the history and development of tourism in the Zermatt area, including the story of the first ascent of the ...
The name Matterhorn derives from the German words Matte ("meadow") and Horn ("horn"), [6] and is often translated as "the peak of the meadows". [2]In the Schalbetter map, printed by Sebastian Münster in 1545, the valley is labelled Mattertal, but the mountain has the Latin name Mons Silvius as well as the German name Augstalberg, in concord with the Aosta Valley (German Augstal).
The Rhaetian Railway (German: Rhätische Bahn; Italian: Ferrovia retica; Romansh: Viafier retica), abbreviated RhB, is a Swiss transport company that owns the largest network of all private railway operators in Switzerland.
In the 1950s Gurr was the author and illustrator of two books, both published by D. Post Publications and out of print, on the subject of auto design: How to Draw Cars of Tomorrow ASIN B0007G0Z5W in 1952, and Automobile Design: The Complete Styling Book ASIN B0007E4Y0G in 1955.
Pre-sale tickets for members of the Neil Young Archives went on sale Feb. 25, and Ticketmaster and LiveNation presales begin on Feb. 27 at 10 a.m. General sale tickets will go on sale Friday, Feb. 28.
As St. Moritz and Zermatt are home to two well-known mountains, the Glacier Express is also said to travel from Matterhorn to Piz Bernina. [ citation needed ] The journey from Zermatt starts at the dead end of an Alpine valley, the Mattertal , just below the Matterhorn at an elevation of 1,606 m (5,269 ft) before it descends to the huge valley ...
1984 Karls kühne Gassenschau: Street performances, artistics and variété.; 1985–1987: Gauklerjahre: Years as travelling artists. 1987–1988: Die Kreuzfahrt auf der "MS Matterhorn".