Funicular Trains Defy Gravity to Carry Skiers to Resort

Name: Funicular Trains Defy Gravity to Carry Skiers to Resort
Uploaded: 2023-01-05
Duration: 231764
Description: The car free Swiss village of Stoos needed an advanced funicular rail system to take tourists up its incredibly steep slope. Their first challenge: excavating a series of tunnels upwards, utilizing a form of drilling originally used to create ventilation shafts in mines.

The car free Swiss village of Stoos needed an advanced funicular rail system to take tourists up its incredibly steep slope. Their first challenge: excavating a series of tunnels upwards, utilizing a form of drilling originally used to create ventilation shafts in mines. (03:51)