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Milan, Le Cisalpin, Simplon Tunnel, Brig, 10 Mar 1980
10 March 1980 was a Alpine tunnel trifecta for me. I rode from Luzern to Milan via the Gothard Tunnel, and then back via the Simplon and Lotschberg Tunnels.
This album is the Milan to Brig leg of the trip through the Simplon Tunnel. I rode TEE Le Cisalpin, which ran on an afternoon and dinner time schedule from Milan to Paris. It was a French train of Budd Gran Comfort equipment and looked like what SP might have done if they'd had Budd build the Shasta Daylight and given it the stainless steel and red stripe Sunset scheme.
I took a few shots in Milan between the time I arrived on the train from the Gothard line and Le Cisalpin left. I didn't take too many photos from the train on the run to Brig as the windows were all sealed and there were several other people in the compartment.
At Brig, I got off Le Cisalpin to connect to the Bern-Lotschberg-Simplon. Again, I didn't have a long layover, but there was a fair bit of activity before my BLS train left.
The glint shot of Le Cisalpin leaving Brig is a rip off of Ted Benson's photos of the last CZ on the line west of Tracy. I admit it.
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Milan, Le Cisalpin, Simplon Tunnel, Brig, 10 Mar 1980
10 March 1980 was a Alpine tunnel trifecta for me. I rode from Luzern to Milan via the Gothard Tunnel, and then back via the Simplon and Lotschberg Tunnels.
This album is the Milan to Brig leg of the trip through the Simplon Tunnel. I rode TEE Le Cisalpin, which ran on an afternoon and dinner time schedule from Milan to Paris. It was a French train of Budd Gran Comfort equipment and looked like what SP might have done if they'd had Budd build the Shasta Daylight and given it the stainless steel and red stripe Sunset scheme.
I took a few shots in Milan between the time I arrived on the train from the Gothard line and Le Cisalpin left. I didn't take too many photos from the train on the run to Brig as the windows were all sealed and there were several other people in the compartment.
At Brig, I got off Le Cisalpin to connect to the Bern-Lotschberg-Simplon. Again, I didn't have a long layover, but there was a fair bit of activity before my BLS train left.
The glint shot of Le Cisalpin leaving Brig is a rip off of Ted Benson's photos of the last CZ on the line west of Tracy. I admit it.