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Brusio spiral viaduct

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Original – The Brusio spiral viaduct in Switzerland, is a single track nine-arched stone spiral railway viaduct, part of the World Heritage-listed Bernina Railway. It is located in Brusio, in the Canton of Graubünden.

Reason

The image is of high quality and provides a compelling overview of an uncommon engineering solution, part of a World Heritage Site.

Articles in which this image appears

Brusio spiral viaduct, Spiral (railway)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Others

Creator

Kabelleger

• Support as nominator --ELEKHH^T 04:43, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support Great find... Lovely photo, no noticable issues that I can see with it, and it made me read the article about it and the Bernina Railway, which is always a good sign of a captivating picture... gazhiley 08:45, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support Excellent photo with strong EV Nick-D (talk) 10:09, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support. Great view of the viaduct, but rather a strange solution... Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:46, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support Definitely deserving. What are those three weirdly-shaped structures inside the spiral, though? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 11:33, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
  • They're sculptures - the spiral is part of the area covered by the recent project in which Google mounted streetview cameras on Swiss trains, and they're visible here. Nick-D (talk) 22:40, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support as nominator reasons. Alborzagros (talk) 11:55, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support. Amazing composition. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:53, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support. Good composition and high EV. —Bruce1ee^talk 12:04, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support -- Colin°^Talk 17:00, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:RhB ABe 4-4 III Kreisviadukt Brusio.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:01, 9 January 2013 (UTC)