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Luckily for advanced powder hounds, more challenging terrain is just a cogwheel train or cable car ride away in the Garmisch-Classic ski area.
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Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2025
Accessed by a 132-year-old cogwheel train, the car-free village serves up over 130 miles of ski trails, stunning off-piste routes (including down the longest glacier in Europe) and one of the most storied World Cup ski races on the planet.
—Kelley Manley, Outside, 13 Nov. 2025
For more winter wonder nearby, find Santa in his secret lair atop Rochers-de-Naye, accessible via traditional cogwheel train, and discounted with the Swiss Travel Pass.
—AFAR Media, 24 Sep. 2025
The author did not intend to furnish the world with plate metal dummies stuffed with cogwheels, photocells, and other mechanical gizmos.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2024
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Courtesy Switzerland’s Jungfrau Railway
Switzerland’s Jungfrau Railway
If a day trip is more your speed, try hopping on the Jungfrau Railway cogwheel train, which carves its way through the Swiss Alps up to the highest rail station in all of Europe.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2023
The train is designed for steep gradients, using toothed cogwheels under the locomotive that connect with a rail in the middle of the track to pull it up the mountain.
—Lori Rackl, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
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Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2025
Accessed by a 132-year-old cogwheel train, the car-free village serves up over 130 miles of ski trails, stunning off-piste routes (including down the longest glacier in Europe) and one of the most storied World Cup ski races on the planet.
—Kelley Manley, Outside, 13 Nov. 2025
For more winter wonder nearby, find Santa in his secret lair atop Rochers-de-Naye, accessible via traditional cogwheel train, and discounted with the Swiss Travel Pass.
—AFAR Media, 24 Sep. 2025
The author did not intend to furnish the world with plate metal dummies stuffed with cogwheels, photocells, and other mechanical gizmos.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2024
Book now with Via Rail Canada (starting at $242)
Courtesy Switzerland’s Jungfrau Railway
Switzerland’s Jungfrau Railway
If a day trip is more your speed, try hopping on the Jungfrau Railway cogwheel train, which carves its way through the Swiss Alps up to the highest rail station in all of Europe.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2023
The train is designed for steep gradients, using toothed cogwheels under the locomotive that connect with a rail in the middle of the track to pull it up the mountain.
—Lori Rackl, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
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“Cogwheel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cogwheel. Accessed 30 Dec. 2025.
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cogwheel
noun
cog·wheel
ˈkäg-ˌhwēl 
-ˌwēl
: a wheel with cogs
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