Line 1
Falzgrund to Sattelhorn, 6.9 kilometres, 1,420 metres of climb, 42 minutes. This is the line the railway was built for, and the one the timetable protects when the weather closes in.
Section 01
The gentle third. Two kilometres of vineyard-edge track out of the trainshed, past the sawmill road crossing, climbing through open larch country to the crossing loop at 1,690 metres. Trains pass here on the hour, driver to driver, hat raised.
Section 02
The hard third. The rack steepens to 25 percent as the track turns into the mountainside and enters the 340-metre gallery cut in 1926. Inside the gallery the sound changes: cog against rack, all echo and metal, then daylight again.
Section 03
The high third. Out of the rock onto the wooden viaduct over the high meadow, then the last rise to the summit station at 2,540 metres. On clear days the driver stops the car for thirty seconds at the meadow curve. Nobody has ever asked why.