Wutach Valley Railway (Piggy's Tail Railway)

The Wutach Valley line leaves the railway line Immendingen-Donaueschingen at Hintschingen and leads to Waldshut in the Rhine valley near Switzerland, using an impressive line arrangement. Because of its unique spiral-tunnel in Germany, it is also called the "Piggy's Tail Railway". The passenger traffic at the medium part between Zollhaus-Blumberg and Weizen was already skipped in the 1950th. Since 1977, the line was reactivated as a private museum railway. The following landscapes for the program BahnLand show the valley crossing at Epfenhofen from different views. This viaduct has a height of 34m and crosses the whole village about a length of 264m. When I visited this line at October 25, 2003, some snow was already fallen. And there was a lot of fog, so that I was not able to get a utilizable photo from the second very interesting viaduct, the Biesenbach viaduct above Epfenhofen.   H.-M. Hebsaker 2004-08-12 Vallay crossing Epfenhofen (view from the East) Photo: © Hans-Martin Hebsaker   H.-M. Hebsaker 2004-08-12 Vallay crossing Epfenhofen (view from the West) Photo: © Hans-Martin Hebsaker   H.-M. Hebsaker 2004-08-12 Vallay crossing Epfenhofen (view from the West) Photo: © Hans-Martin Hebsaker