Through the glass towers
Undefined borders between reality and fiction.
Pictures shot in Zurich North. Click each picture to tell reality from reflection.
Back in (Swiss) time
Everything’s ready for the opening of the world’s longest and deepest tunnel, the new Gotthard base rail tunnel.
Our train will speed up to 250 km/h for 57 km under the Gotthard massive: more than 2 km of rocks above our head!
Will this shiny coach from the Swiss railways be our wagon?
Or instead this Trans Europe Express, the most comfy train of the Sixties?
Maybe the 10 tons, 2000 HP largest electric-engine powered locomotive ever (from 1922)?
Or this C 5/6 2978 (1917 – 1967): it was the last steam locomotive running through the old Gotthard tunnel … at 65 km/h.
That’s our boy: the D 1/3 1 «Limmat», 179 HP – 1847, the fist locomotive operated by the Swiss railway company. All aboard!
Pictures shot in Erstfeld, at the opening ceremony of the Gotthard base tunnel. That day, several historical trains of the Swiss railways were available for public view.
RYB: red yellow blue
 
 
 
Primary colors of Zurich. Click to enlarge.
The city of the future
The city of the future is under construction. Click each picture to enlarge.
Pictures shot in the new Zurich North side.
Nel blu dipinto di blu
From the blue sky of Pilatus Kulm …
… down towards the Vierwaldstättersee.
Then by gondola above the woods,
back to the flatland …
… back to Lucerne and the blue of its Roiss river.
This is the end of the Golden Round Trip started with a cruise and a cogwheel train.
Click each picture to enlarge.
