Panorama Line
The full climb: valley floor to summit saddle in 42 minutes, through three galleries and the high meadow.
Falzgrund → Sattelhorn · Daily, year round
The Sonnenberg rack · since 1912
The slow way up the mountain.
A cog railway is not the fastest way to 2,540 metres. It is the way that lets you watch the valley drop away, grain by grain, for forty-two minutes. High Spur Railway has been climbing the Sonnenberg since 1912, and it has never once been in a hurry.
07:12
Sattelhorn
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On time
08:04
Treeline
2
On time
09:30
Sattelhorn
1
On time
10:15
Falzgrund
1
On time
11:48
Falzgrund
2
Platform 2
13:05
Sattelhorn
1
On time
Live from the dispatcher, Falzgrund
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Three ways up
Treeline Shuttle
The commuter's flywheel: nine cars a day serving the sawmill road, the school, and the trailheads.
Falzgrund → Treeline · Daily, year round
Night Owl
A lantern-lit late run for the observatory staff, night hikers, and anyone who wants the valley dark.
Falzgrund → Sattelhorn · Fridays and Saturdays
The climb
1,420 metres, one profile
From the lake fog at Falzgrund to the wind at Sattelhorn. The rack passes the sawmill road, crosses the high meadow on a wooden viaduct, and enters the Saddle Gallery for the last hard push. The profile below is the whole railway on one line.
Compare the routes
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Three stations, one line
Valley terminal · 1,120 m
Falzgrund
Iron-and-glass trainshed from 1912, rebuilt 1979. Connection to the postal bus and the lake steamer pier.
Crossing loop · 1,690 m
Treeline
Where trains pass. The sawmill road, the school stop, and the start of the Panoramaweg trail.
Summit station · 2,540 m
Sattelhorn
2,540 metres, a revolving restaurant, and the small observatory that keeps the Night Owl in business.
From the journal
Reading for the ride
Dispatches from the dispatcher, the workshop, and the timetable desk.
All entries2026-09-14 · 6 min
In praise of the switchback
A rack railway could climb straight up. Ours doesn't, and the reason is older than the railway.
2026-08-02 · 8 min
The 1912 boiler that never retired
Goria's boiler has outlived three traction systems and two world wars. Here is why the workshop refuses to let it go.
2026-06-20 · 5 min
How a winter timetable is written
It takes four drafts, two avalanche bulletins, and one very patient dispatcher to move a single departure by ten minutes.