Jungfraujoch – Europe’s highest train station at an altitude of almost 3,500 meters!

Jungfraujoch – Europe’s highest train station at an altitude of almost 3,500 meters!

High up in the Swiss Alps, at an altitude of almost 3,500 meters (or 11,332 feet), lies Jungfraujoch, Europe’s highest train station, a wonder of human engineering that has been around for over a century. Probably a train doesn’t seem like the best means of transportation when trying to climb a mountain, but the Swiss have solid proof to this possibility and, at the end of the 19th century, they began work on a project unlike any other, the Jung…