Mountain Railway News

Did you know that...

 ... the Silvretta Arena Samnaun / Ischgl  mountain railways can transport ca. 83'065 persons per hour?

... alone in the last 5 years more than EURO 120,000,000 (approx. CHF 183,000,00) was invested in the improvement of the ski area?

... to enable this investment, the shareholders of the mountain railways Samnaun AG have, since the enterprise began, renounced the paying out of dividends?

...most pistes of the skiing area are used in the summer months as alpine meadows - more frequently now as" bio-meadows", whereby today more cattle can be put out to pasture than before the ski area was developed?

...daily in winter during the night hours 31 piste machines prepare the downhill tracks so as to guarantee a trouble-free ski run?

...each of these piste machines costs approx. EURO 400,000 (approx. CHF 620'000)?

...through the solar and  heat-recovery installations approx. 5'000 kW hours energy are achieved?

...in the last 10 years approx. 15-20 hectares ski runs which 20-30 years ago were levelled by caterpillar tractors and not made green, have been recultivated?

... the restaurants have been connected by means of canalization to the local sewage disposal plants?

... the Mountain Railways Samnaun AG since 1998 have purchased from the farmers 326 cows, 94 calves and 92 lambkins at a fair price and utilized them in the catering enterprise?