Oltimer Train on Transalpine Railway
by Dragica Micki Fortuna
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Title
Oltimer Train on Transalpine Railway
Artist
Dragica Micki Fortuna
Medium
Painting - Gouache
Description
Oldtimer train ride on a part of a historical Transalpina Railway, which was inaugurated on July 19th 1906 in order to complete the railway that linked Vienna and Central Europe with the Adriatic regions of Austro-Hungarian Empire, especially with the port at Trieste.
The construction of the railway was for those times very complicated and demanded numerous exceptional architectural achievements (tunnels, bridges, viaducts etc.), which made the railway famous. Especially remarkable are the bridge of Solkan with its 85 metres long arcade, which is still world largest, and the tunnel of Podbrdo, the genuine passing under the Julian Alps with the length of 6327 metres.
World conflicts of the previous century have caused Transalpina loose its role of a great commercial railway and made it a secondary line, which is nowadays reviving as a touristic railway connecting Austria, Slovenia and Italy.
The Oldtimer train be pulled by a steam engine from the Railway Museum of Ljubljana.
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January 11th, 2014
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