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On the rails again… #Interrail #CrossBorderRail

Today I am crossing Switzerland, on an itinerary that is still in flux. I’m considering dinner in an Italian restaurant, but I’m also considering the possibility of a small trip on a rack railway, a Racklette if you will.

The itinerary for today is at: https://moof.space/trip/2026-02-12 - it’ll keep updating as I change my mind or not throughout the day.

Feel free to chime in with opinions on my proposed route over on this thread: https://cupoftea.social/@moof/116053499567479694

We start the day off with an ÖBB Cityjet-branded FLIRT doing service as the S-bahn to St. Margrethen

Four seats, two of which are facing a table in an ÖBB FLIRT. Through the window you can see a platform and another ÖBB train

Trainlog trip starting on 12 February 2026

From 🇦🇹 Bregenz to 🇨🇭 Genève

Moof! 🏳️‍🌈

@moof@cupoftea.social · 2 weeks ago

Servus aus Österreich! Tomorrow… will be more trains and more pretty…. And probably much more commentary.

I leave you with my insane timetable for tomorrow… https://moof.space/trip/2026-02-12

Moof! 🏳️‍🌈

@moof@cupoftea.social · 2 weeks ago

Schweiz, ich bin in ihr!

And this really is the landscape I’m here to see…

Landscape with dramatic snow-capped mountains. A small stream on the foreground

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@moof@cupoftea.social · 2 weeks ago

And thanks to the wonders of the Taktfahrplan—the clock face timetable—I am able to change platform and get there just as my next Interregio train arrives, taking me to St. Gallen.

This is a double decker Stadler train, and I have first class all to myself.

Moof! 🏳️‍🌈

@moof@cupoftea.social · 2 weeks ago

I don’t know about you, but that blot looks a bit like a train to me…

#Rorschach

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@moof@cupoftea.social · 2 weeks ago

And so begins today’s SOB story, one of the prettier parts of the journey, on the Voralpen Express, from St. Galen to Luzern, though in my case, it’s as far as Arth-Goldau.

I’m aboard a RABe 526 - a modified Stadler FLIRT3 known as a Traverso.

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A Traverso in a copper-coloured SOB livery at St Gallen station

Two individual seats round a small table in the first class of a Traverso. A large backpack is on the right hand seat. Through the window you can see a station platform

Oliver Blanthorn

@bovine3dom@masto.ai · 2 weeks ago

@moof I don't understand why Stadler split from their naming convention of KISS and FLIRT by going with Giruno for their high speed set. QUICKIE was right there...

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