Semmering Railway

Departing from Gloggnitz, the hour long Semmering crosses the Austrian Alps Semmering Pass to M?rzzuschlag. Completed in 1854before the age of dynamite and tunnel drilling machines?it passes over 16 viaducts and through 14 tunnels, all carved by hand into the rock. Its one of the masterpieces of civil engineering from the pioneering days of railway building.