European Railroad Discussion > Garmish, Germany.

July or August 1964.
Local electric route.
Route up a local Mountain (Zuggspitz I think).

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Great stuff - many thanks.

It is indeed the Zugspitz railway which goes up Germany's highest mountain, right up against the Austrian border. and which starts at Garmisch on the Munich to Innsbruck via Mittenwald route. (Did I catch a glimpse of a mainline electric shunter at the end at the end of the film?).

The line is interesting because it has a relatively flat adhesion section, worked conventionally (or at least used to be!) with a loco pulling three carriages and then a rack and pinion section up to the summit, where one of the carriages would be propelled by an electric motor car. The final kilometer or so is in tunnel, a bit like the Jungfraujoch line.

spflow Wrote:
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> Great stuff - many thanks.
>
> It is indeed the Zugspitz railway which goes up
> Germany's highest mountain, right up against the
> Austrian border. and which starts at Garmisch on
> the Munich to Innsbruck via Mittenwald route. (Did
> I catch a glimpse of a mainline electric shunter
> at the end at the end of the film?).

It looked to me after watching the video several times that the shunter at the end is a Diesel-hydraulic V60 type of which DB owned 1241 examples.

SOO6617 Wrote:
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> It looked to me after watching the video several
> times that the shunter at the end is a
> Diesel-hydraulic V60 type of which DB owned 1241
> examples.

Yes you're right of course

Its still there and hasn't really changed much.

I visited Garmish in June 2008. I would love to visit the town again someday