One of the three large diesel electric locos, 'Heidi', built by Stadler in 1946 waits by the weighbridge at 07:00 in the morning with a train of skips, ready to depart on the 1.5 hour trip to the Bodensee.
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The overhead wire stops a couple of kilometers before the end of the line, and the locos continue with diesel power. On each side of the Rhine there are tipplers which are used to deposit the stone into waiting lorries, which then take the stone farther out onto the extended banks of the Rhine.
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The railway crosses the Rhine in two places. The first bridge is just a couple of kilometers from the quarry, and once on the western bank, the railway is in Switzerland. Further north, there is a combined road/rail bridge, which takes the railway back into Austria. However, at this point, the railway extends north along both banks of the river, but when visited in May 2000, the construction work was only being carried out on the western bank.
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