We have to change trains in Vallorcine, as the Mont Blanc Express can only cover a short section with the aid of a rack railway. The gradient down into the Rhône Valley is 200 per mille.

Traveling on a meter-gauge railway through the French Alps in Haute Savoie is a delightful experience.

Come along and enjoy the photographic impressions.

If the substance of an old Gauge 1 model is good, it can still be refined and brought up to date even decades later. Bernhard Lindlbauer has reworked a 28-year-old Dingler model of the Bavarian 5-ton crane of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and equipped it with functional details.

Since the technical fundamentals of railways have remained unchanged for many decades, old regional railway chassis could be used to build work cars. Steiner Modellwerke took a similar approach with its gauge 1 models of DB X cars.