The rack switch at the exit of the station Lauterbrunnen of the Berner
Oberland-Bahn seen on 18 March 2002. Where the rack crosses the rails, a part
of the rack and a part of the rail are moved together to put either the rack or
the rail into position. The rack is a Strub type in the switch, but a
Riggenbach type on the open line in the background. At railways with both rack
and adhesion sections, rack switches are rare, there are only two in the whole
BOB network.
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Digital photo by
<a href="http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/christoph.schmitz2/index.html">Christoph
Schmitz</a>