★ 4K 🇨🇭 Vitznau - Rigi Kulm rack railway cab ride [05.2023] Zahnradbahn Führerstandsmitfahrt

Today we’re going to have a look at the first* steep grade railway in Europe, the original Rigibahn for a second time (this time with sunny weather). The Rigi is a mountain located in central Switzerland within the cantons of Schwyz and Luzern. It’s a popular tourist destination. Almost completely surrounded by lakes, the journey to the top offers spectacular views.
Two of Switzerland’s three standard gauge rack railways serve the Rigi mountain. The one we’re looking at today starts in Vitznau, a scenic boat ride away from the city of Luzern (Lucerne).
If anybody would like to see the third standard gauge rack railway in Switzerland (Rorschach - Heiden Bahn), click this link:
• ★ 4K 🇨🇭Rorschach ...
* Another rack railway was completed the year before in Ostermundigen for a quarry, but they delayed their official opening to make the Rigibahn the first rack railway.
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[@nusretsoyucengil8000]

teşekkürler.

[@robertcoleman4861]

BEAUTIFUL SWITZERLAND.🚞🚞🍾🍷🍹🍺🥳🤠

[@jgbcodemonkey]

Rigi was the first mountain-top experience my wife and I had when we visited Switzerland (our trip started in Luzern). The view up there was incredible, as was the train ride up. Thanks for sharing this video and for bringing back good memories!

[@adjones3937]

Sincerely,thank you. I need this.👍👍👍👍

[@user-pz5lm2il4p]

СУПЕР ВІДЕО! ДЯКУЮ ТОБІ! 🌲🌲🌲SUPER VIDEO! THANK YOU! 👍

[@mdniloy2260]

LOVE From Bangladesh ❤❤

[@angelikaluft2515]

Einfach wunderschön. Danke für's Mitnehmen. Die Strecke von Arth Goldau zur Rigi Kulm bin ich ebenfalls mitgefahren, auch sie ist herrlich.

[@tvkritisk]

What a beautiful day to make this vid, the scenery is outstanding! I think I saw the winter version, not this completed, but the spring one is a whole new world! Thank you for this and all your vids. Greetings from Colombia

[@airtondopapacapim4073]

Beautful! Que 😃💙👍

[@fran-kittyayers5329]

This ride blew me away, absolutely stunning, thankyou so much ❤️

[@gabkae8067]

Great Greetings from Basel Switzerland

[@user-qm4hg3qn9k]

It's just Paradise. Only pleasure.👍

[@peterdavidson3268]

Made this same trip in the summer (Sunday 10th July) of 2022 - the weather was almost identical to that featured here - the new trains had been introduced only a couple of months before our visit - stunning views from the very summit of Rigi Kulm - it's not cheap though but fortunately the Hotel we were staying at had a discount scheme in operation so a not quite so obscene amount of money changed hands!

[@user-wm2ev5lz7q]

Good,thanks

[@knightwolf200612]

I can only imagine the incredible views on the way down, please make a video of that too!

[@roc9999]

Marvellous Lovely Danke Team😀

[@chronias]

great video, thank you!

[@Stas1661]

красота ))😊

[@Karolswirus]

Wow ale tam pięknie ,ładne widoki, cudowne miejsce na wypoczynek i zwiedzanie😃😀

[@ceanothus_bluemoon]

Lovely in every way!

[@alking.abwhajr]

مناظر خلابة وطبيعة جميلة جدآ 👬🌻💯

[@Nazir-WalkAroundTheCity]

Extra Have a nice day 🖐☕ Greetings Janusz from Warsaw, 🇵🇱 🖐Poland ✌

[@sigurdjohnson6617]

Beautiful!!

[@AZqyc]

Hey, hey ... Nice ride on the Rigi! Brought back nice memories of a visit to CH a long while back. It was overcast when I took that ride so very nice to see the real scenery. Thanks for sharing! (Greetings from Tucson)

[@brucewilliams8714]

Thank you for this. Years ago, I came up from Arth-Goldau. So now I've seen both routes.

[@wyqtor]

This is the ride I missed last year in Luzern, as I had to pick between Rigi and Pilatus (went to the Swiss Transport Museum on the rainy day instead), so thank you for this and I hope we will also have the Pilatusbahn here someday soon!

[@mf5531]

LOVED that ride.

[@user-wv2zy3db1c]

Интересно,познавательно,увлекательно!Просто СУПЕР!Спасибо!

[@lukmanbucin3154]

Keren 👍

[@offydannerson8049]

Great video, loved it!

[@ratroddiesels1981]

this funicular ride was very special , thank you we enjoyed it.

[@wilcovanwinden6581]

A funicular is not self-powered and instead hauled by steel cables (and they are usually not very long). This is a rack railway.

[@joeldimeglio9002]

Thanks you for the fantastic climb 😊

[@rashaski]

My family camped in Vitznau every summer when I was a teenager in the 1980s. I am taking my husband there for the first time next year!!

[@lorirocks777]

Nice! =)

[@MAX999NIK]

Дуже гарне відео!

[@user-ds8ge6tw4b]

Класс!Очень красиво!просто фантастика!

[@ajf976]

Hi from (sunny for a change) England! Another top notch video. You should get tourist board sponsorship because they definitely make me want to come to Switzerland one day. keep up the great work 👍

[@AG-D647]

Dankeschön fürs Mitnehmen. Tolle Bahn, toller Ausblick. 👍🏻 Ich denke, ein Muss bei einem Schweizbesuch. Viele Grüße und bis zum nächsten Video. 🙋🏼‍♂️

[@philippecowboy-2975]

magnifique !!! impressionnant ces rampes, le son de la crémaillère, le paysage ... dépaysant pour un Français de Bretagne !!! félicitations

[@serotong20]

Nice view. 👍🙏

[@VERSACE77]

Yeah. a few days ago, I was in there I'm feeling longing

[@More-Space-In-Ear]

What an awesome rid and with such a view at the top..thanks for sharing 👍😊

[@norbertk.1473]

Sehr gut

[@norbertk.1473]

Ein Geisterzug, der sich auf einmal sichtbar macht😱 11:35

[@icetiger2]

amazing route and amazing nature⛰🚞

[@AnthonyWiddowson]

Amazing scenery and views.

[@amitc1617]

Beautiful 🎉

[@alexanderbernhardgeorgzeit6634]

.😅

[@thom3124]

What a fun ride. Thanks

[@hansrichardnohrer2834]

Ein gutes video danke

[@karinbirgels904]

MEEEEGA🤷‍♀️🙏Dankeschön 🤝 💗🌺💐💐💐💐💗🌺

[@PetrFaltus1]

Geiles Video... Etwa 7km und von 435 bis 1752 Meter über Meer... Was mir noch sehr gefällt sind die Weichen... Und an der Endstation steht ein Fernseh- und Rundfunk-Sender... ❤😊 Great video. Approximately 7km and from 435 to 1752 above the sea... What I like to much too are switches... And at the final station stands a TV and radio transmitter... ❤😊

[@lorirocks777]

Vielen Dank

[@user-ru2jz6fd3l]

Очень интересно! И красиво!

[@castr-san1046]

Goooood from iraq

[@Bruno.Trains]

Ce n'est pas un train mais un funiculaire ! BRAVO

[@Sacto1654]

You can easily tell the steep gradient of this line when you see the buildings next to the line.

[@berndm9743]

Gorgeous video. Thanks. BUT...one thing I would LOVE to see is the use of a WIDE ANGLE camera. There is so much beautiful scenery on the sides that we never get to see. Such a shame.

[@holtenauer63]

sehr schöne Zahnradbahn

[@dink1955]

Awesome!

[@fatimar8924]

❤❤❤❤🇧🇷🙏🙏👋👋

[@vladimirfedorov1822]

👍👍👍

[@jan-yr3zf]

Fantastic video

[@serpent9527]

look forward to more

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

20:34 Needs more cowbell! ❤

[@ferroviestazioni7323]

🏆💪🔝

[@ronm3245]

Amazing geology of this mountain! It is uplifted and tilted, with very dramatic fault escarpments. Apparently conglomerate, especially visible at the opening to the tunnel.

[@dziltener]

The Rigi is actually sediment left by the massive glaciers that once covered the regions, which makes it quite different to the other mountains around

[@vandanerisgomes9009]

Muito bom

[@DieSchweigers]

Hallo, wunderschön diese Fahrt mit der Zahnradbahn. Vielen Dank fürs mitnehmen war sehr schön. Gerne ein Abo und ein Like von uns. Liebe Grüße Maria und Robert 😊👍

[@lorirocks777]

Besten Dank!

[@merlijnwiersma7801]

This line is weird. A tourist rack railway that's double tracked and electrified, has simple scaffolding for halts and hypermodern stationbuildings and to top it all: cows with cowbells and Buddhists monks... 👍( O, and since I mentioned cowbells it's now mandatory for me to say that "I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"😂)

[@dirigindopelasruas]

Apreciando mais um ótimo vídeo, belas imagens como sempre! É like👍

[@edisrehtoeht1426]

Beutiful country ❤❤but no money to visit 😢😢😢😢

[@fran-kittyayers5329]

Same here, we need a lottery win 🏆 😂

[@Carfree-Cities]

Video quality is exceptional! What did you shoot with?

[@ranjandasgupta2995]

Whenever I open U tube, frequency of Switzerland rail videos is often, next is Western movies. In this video I am seeing for the first time track is going through deep forest wooded areas. It is beautiful.

[@DDSredsulin]

I didn't think it was possible: the gradient is 250 thousandths

[@pianistegolfeur]

Quelle est sa vitesse d'ascension ? Elle me paraît rapide ! Fabuleux trajet !!!

[@tabiatbekcisi5841]

25:19 Beam me up Scotty

[@rrags1987]

One question. Do the ticket checkers come to see the tickets onboard? Or do the passengers need to first show the ticket before boarding the train?

[@lorirocks777]

Option 1

[@vig6254]

Are you the driver?

[@DDSredsulin]

Isn't that a mistake? Length 6700 km

[@lorirocks777]

Where did you see that?

[@KR72534]

These people don’t go out for lunch.

[@jallatmartine9766]

Vous avez de la chance nous avons rien dans les Vosges France Lorraine

[@arriesone1]

You didn’t show any views from the top!

[@PhreddCrintt]

11,752m??? Why is everyone alive?? Oxygen is required above 3,00m!

[@lorirocks777]

Remove the first 1, I'm not sure where you're getting that number. Using common sense, I take it you meant 3'000 m. You don't "need" supplemental oxygen yet at that elevation, unless you're elderly or have reduced longue capacity. I've been higher than that without it and felt fine.

[@MirkoC407]

To be honest I don't like it so much. A lot of the video is staring at the mountain. For a rack railway the downhill trip is probably a better idea because of the views.

[@evilborg]

How can this have a 250% grade??

[@lorirocks777]

Not %

[@evilborg]

@@lorirocks777 umm what is the grade then ?

[@swisspeach67]

250 ‰ = 25 %

[@evilborg]

@@swisspeach67 oh its 10% of the grade.. but still 25% is crazy

[@gerardmeunier8309]

Fabuleux ❤

[@sellier-bellot22]

Very interesting , only on summer time ? 🥸

[@lorirocks777]

Thanks, I also filmed with some snow about a year ago.