Wengernalpbahn

Hello,
I've an idea. Could you make the Wengernalpbahn? It's a rack railway in switzerland in the Jungfrau Region.

The Wengernalpbahn (WAB) connects the villages of Lauterbrunnen, Wengen and Grindelwald with the Kleine Scheidegg, which is 2061 meters above sea level. With a length of 19,114 m, it is the longest continuous rack railway in the world. The busiest section of the route is between Lauterbrunnen and Wengen. The railway ensures the transport of people as well as the supply of goods for the car-free health resort. In addition to the development of Wengen, the WAB takes on the role of the feeder railway to the Jungfrau Railway. It transports more than 1,800,000 guests to the Kleine Scheidegg and back every year. Ten modern low-floor panorama trains, each with a capacity of 152 seats, have been running on the Grindelwald-Kleine Scheidegg route since 2005 and on the Lauterbrunnen-Kleine Scheidegg route since 2014. With the rolling stock used today, the travel time from Grindelwald - Grund to Kleine Scheidegg is 24 minutes and from Lauterbrunnen to Kleine Scheidegg 42 minutes. Wengen is a 12-minute drive from Lauterbrunnen.

Some Details:
1893
BUILT
19.11 km
ROUTE LENGTH
800mm
TRACK WIDTH
250 ‰
MAXIMUM SLOPE
1500 V
DC

More informations here:

https://www.jungfrau.ch/de-ch/unter...ag/jungfraubahn-holding-ag/wengernalpbahn-ag/

Thank you

 

This will require simgraph upgrade for rack railways all routes are Adhesion only

 

Nice idea, but I don’t think we’ll get funiculars anytime soon

 

It's a Rack Railway like the NSW Skitube

 

Which is a funicular, last time I checked.
Either way, we won’t be getting this for a while in TSW.

 

Funiculars are cable-pulled (although some furniculars will have a rack for braking etc). They also are only ever very short, straight (occasionally with passing loops), and have to operate in pairs using the opposite train as a counterbalance. Very different to most rack-railways

 

Either way, we won’t get it in TSW anytime soon

 

Yesterday I already suggested this layout, but then from Interlaken to the Jungfraujoch.

https://forums.dovetailgames.com/th...ndelwald-kleine-scheidegg-jungfraujoch.50820/

 

Does that mean we shouldn't bother suggesting it?

 

tbh, idk. Yes in terms of awareness , but practically no.

 

It's Not a funicular. It's a long railway with 25 km.

 

It's a Real train no funicular. The brakes are like at All other trains.

 

Here's a picture of the tracks themselves it has a Strub Rack system like Pikes Peak post rebuild

I shaped ladder track the Riggenbach Rack system

 

I would love to see funiculars at some point. But I think the big problem would be the lack of variety in game play. Its usually just point to point with no variations.

 

I never said that Wengernalp was a funicular. I was correcting paintbrushguy who was implying that rack-railways were funiculars, by explaining the difference between the two.

 

The Wengernalpbahn is an active raimway. There are passenger and freight traffick.
A good Szenario is the snow train. To hold the rails free you need a snow train in the Winter.
I understand your message. There are very much people wich feel boring, when they have to drive a rack railway