Alamy Switzerland has long used a patchwork of ... "It's also a technical issue because between Lucerne and Interlaken we have a cog railway. That means we'd need to add a cog system to the ...

The Mount Washington Cog Railway, which began operating the world’s first mountain-climbing railroad on July 3, 1869, is ...

But is it enough? The Jungfrau cog railway in Scheidegg, Switzerland. Efforts are underway to slow the melting ... [+] glaciers in this fragile part of the Alps. The glaciers of Grindelwald are ...

Lucerne in central Switzerland sits on the edge of a lake ... being easily accessible via cable car and train. There is also a cog train up Mount Rigi. It was the first mountain railway in Europe ...