Bernina Express MSTS

Bernina-Express

for the Microsoft Train Simulator

With the "Bernina Express," simtrain presents an ideal complement to Microsoft Train Simulator and the Heidi Express and Glacier Express routes. This interesting route leads from St. Moritz to Tirano in the southern Valposchiavo region. The journey over the Bernina Pass has its own unique charms and highlights. Anyone who has ever traveled the route from St. Moritz or Pontresina to Tirano in Italy will always return enthusiastically to the southern part of Graubünden.

The Route

On the journey over the Bernina Pass, the train climbs to an altitude of 2,253 meters above sea level without rack and pinion. A digital elevation model is used for the first time in this product. The resulting mountain scenery impresses with a unique sense of depth in the train simulator. Plenty of original rolling stock (again with regenerative braking), innovative signaling, and challenging adventures ensure plenty of driving fun.

With the Bernina Express to the palm trees of Tiranos, past the glaciers of Piz Bernina!

The Bernina Line is the only Swiss railway that runs openly over the Alps. There is no summit tunnel at the Bernina Pass; instead, the "Ospizio Bernina" station at an altitude of 2,253 meters offers magnificent views of Lake Nero and Lake Bianco. A short while later, reaching the "Alp Grüm" station, perched on a rocky ledge, the train descends in truly adventurous curves to Tirano, located at 429 meters above sea level, in the Italian Valtellina. Within just a few hours, passengers can visually experience all the vegetation zones between the glaciers of Piz Bernina (4,049 meters above sea level) and the palm trees of Tirano in Italy (429 meters above sea level). The sheer incredible thing about the entire route: the elevation difference of 1,824 meters is overcome without any cogwheel sections. The horizontal distance to Tirano is only 22 kilometers, meaning the railway has to overcome gradients of up to 70 per thousand. Where this wasn't sufficient, the engineers had to resort to all sorts of tricks to gain altitude during the construction of the line. For this reason, the famous circular viaduct was built near Brusio, on which the train loops like a model railway.

The activities

Around 20 interesting adventures – true to reality – ensure hours of fun!