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Mountain labor

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Wolfgang Stolba, Images by Robert Hack

By ensuring that the alpine routes remain open and safe all year round, high-performance maintenance locomotives form the backbone.
Bernina, Switzerland

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Four new snowblowers powered by OM500 engines clear the tracks and are pushed along by the new service locomotive.
Test runs under arctic conditions: the new service locomotive with Rhaetian Railway wagons just ahead of the snow-covered Bernina Pass at an altitude of 2,253 m.
The snow-blowers can be fully extended to a width of 6 m.
The Ospizio Bernina railway station at the top of the Bernina Pass lies at an altitude of 2,253 m.
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