Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Pontresina

I took a picture of this mountain solely because I loved it. I didn't think too much about which mountain it was, and didn't have a topo map on me. If anybody knows which one it is, please leave a comment!! :-)

No trees in this shot, but the road is still there, and look at that grade!! Also, the curve is so sharp it would easily put a car in the ditch if the driver was going too fast. As it's rail curves that generally have to be wide, as trains are quite big, it gives an impression of how sharp, relatively speaking, this curve is, even given that it's narrow gauge. Notice also on the right that that's a frozen lake!!

This mountain looks very familiar, but I can't place it. Does anybody know which one it is?

This was a ski lodge, if I'm not mistaken, which amazed me, actually. Many people ski from very high up.

At this point, we were still paralleling the road, and the Opel was long gone. You can see some trees on the right, but the treeline is mostly past at this point.

Here's pretty much the end of the treeline, with a few last ones before the bare ice and rock.

Here we are side by side with the Opel.

And...here's the grade out of Pontresina!! I knew that these trains were designed to take steep grades, but this is really exceptional, and looks it.

Here's one of the Rhatische Bahn's freight trains, as surprisingly there is a certain amount of freight on it, in spite of the narrow gauge.

This is the train that formed the Bernina Express when I rode it. It an EMU, obviously, but I don't know the class.

Here's a shot of the Pontresina yard.

Here's the view from the Pontresina Bahnhof parking lot. I don't know what mountain that is, but it caught my eye. Notice also the American style camper van in the lot!! :-)

This is Pontresina Bahnhof (Station) on the Rhatische Bahn, or Rhaetian Railway, where I was to board the Bernina Express for Tirano, on the Italian border. This was one of the most memorable train trips I ever took on a regular train, so I decided awhile ago to first show these shots in my first NRHS slide show, and later online.

This was the view of Pontresina itself as we departed, but I figured it belonged at the beginning anyway, or maybe I was just incompetent? :-)