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Pilatus Railway (world's steepest cogwheel railway) Pilatus , also often referred to as Mount Pilatus , is a mountain massif overlooking Lucerne in Central Switzerland . It is composed of several peaks, of which the highest (2,128.5 m [6,983 ft]) is named Tomlishorn .
Topographically, the three most important summits of the canton are those of the Rotstöckli (most elevated), the Bürgenstock (most prominent) and Pilatus (most isolated). The Rotstöckli (2,901 m), although the highest point of the canton, is not listed as it is a subsidiary peak of the Titlis (3,238 m) and has a topographic prominence of ...
Pilatus Kulm (for Mount Pilatus) 2,073 M. Aerial cable car Kriens-Krienseregg-Fräkmüntegg. The Pilatus Railway (German: Pilatusbahn, PB) is a mountain railway ...
This is a list of the highest mountains of Switzerland.This list only includes summits above 3,600 metres (11,811 ft) with a topographic prominence of at least 30 metres. . Note that this list includes many secondary summits that are typically not considered mountains (in the strict sense of the term) but that are mainly of climbing intere
All mountain heights and prominences on the list are from the largest-scale maps available. [2]However, heights sometime conflict on different scales. For example, the Fletschhorn is indicated to be 3,993 m (13,100 ft), 3,982 m (13,064 ft), and 3,984 m (13,071 ft) high on the 1:100'000, 1:50'000 and 1:25'000 Swisstopo map, respectively.
Alpnachstad PB railway station (German: Bahnhof Alpnachstad PB) is a railway station in the municipality of Alpnach, in the Swiss canton of Obwalden.It is the base station of the Pilatus Railway rack railway that ascends near the summit of Pilatus.
The tunnel runs under the Lopper, a shoulder of Mount Pilatus which extends into Lake Lucerne, and immediately on leaving the tunnel the line crosses a bridge over the Alpnachersee arm of Lake Lucerne before entering Stansstad station. [1] [2] The Lopper II Tunnel is paralleled by the Kirchenwald Tunnel carrying the A2 motorway.
Image of the Swiss Alps, covered in snow during the daytime. The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps, [1] represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau and the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountains, one of its three main physiographic regions.