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The Albula Railway Museum () is located at the Bergün/Bravuogn railway station of the
Albula Railway The Albula railway line (; ; ) is a Single track (rail), single track metre gauge railway line forming part of the core network of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It links Thusis (Rhae ...
of the Swiss
Rhaetian Railway The Rhaetian Railway (; ; ), abbreviated RhB, is a Swiss transport company that owns the largest network of all private railway operators in Switzerland. Headquartered in Chur, the RhB operates all the railway lines of the Cantons of Switzerland, ...
. The museum is in operation since 2012. The museum tells the history of the construction of the Albula Railway and shows many historical plans and artifacts. Topographic simulations and demonstrations of the tunneling methods are part of the multimedia displays. One section of the museum houses a miniature Albula Railway operating in
O scale O scale (or O gauge) is a scale commonly used for toy trains and rail transport modelling. Introduced by German toy manufacturer Märklin around 1900, by the 1930s three-rail alternating current O gauge was the most common model railroad sc ...
built by Bernhard Tarnutzer that includes buildings, viaducts, and tunnels from the 1950s and 1960s. The
Rhaetian Railway Ge 6/6 I The Rhaetian Railway Ge 6/6 I is a class of metre gauge Co-Co locomotives, C′C′ electric locomotives operated by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Cantons of Switzerland, Canton of Graubünden, Sw ...
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See also

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List of museums in Switzerland This is a list of museums in Switzerland, sorted by canton and city / municipality. Included are Swiss natural history museums, science museums, transport museums, railway museums, military museums, art museums and ethnographic museums, among ...
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List of railway museums in Switzerland {{Short description, none This is a list of railway museums in Switzerland. List * Albula Railway Museum * Bahn der internationalen Rheinregulierung (IRR) * Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway (BC) * Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland (DVZO) * Furka ...


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