Another famous Austrian cog-railway was target of my recent train watching trip in the beautiful “Salzkammergut” region at the border of Upper Austria and Salzburg. This line climbs from St. Wolfgang at the lake called (surprise!) Wolfgangsee up to the top of the mountain called “Schafberg” (Mount Sheep). It is the steepest of all Austrian cog lines and was opened in 1893. The railway still runs the original steam engines on Sundays in Summer but the daily, on nice days intense-  traffic is handled by modern, oil fired steam locomotives as well as diesel engines.  I met the brand new VZ 32 built by Stadler as part of the HGm 2/2 family when heading to the awesome “Aschinger” mountain restaurant for lunch.