On the Rails of the Double Headed Eagle

The railway age in the Austrian Empire began with the construction of the horse-drawn railway from Linz to Budweis. Plans soon followed to connect the imperial capital of Vienna with the iron and coal deposits in northern Moravia and with the port city of Trieste. In 1837 the Kaiser Ferdinands Nordbahn was opened, in 1857 the Semmeringbahn planned by Karl Ritter von Ghega, overcoming one of the most difficult obstacles on the way to the Adriatic. The crossing of the Alps by train, such as over the Arlberg or the Brenner, is still considered a unique engineering masterpiece. The expansion of the railway network brought epochal changes. Goods and people circulated on an unprecedented scale – life accelerated. It had succeeded in connecting the northern crown lands such as Silesia or Bohemia and Moravia with Carinthia, Tyrol or the coastal region.

Cast

Gernot Stadler Self - Sprecher (voice)

Mladen Bogić Self - Eisenbahnmuseum Laibach

Jurko Prochasko Self - Schriftsteller, Lemberg

Martin Pollack Self - Schriftsteller, Wien

Thomas Winkler Self - Technisches Museum Wien

Markus Habsburg Lothringen Self - Kaiservilla Bad Ischl

Susanne Schaber Self - Schriftstellerin, Wien

Vanessa Thun-Hohenstein Self - Sprecher (voice)

Christian Toulali Self - Sprecher (voice)

Markus Achatz Self - Sprecher (voice)

Anne-Katrin Ebert Self - Technisches Museum Wien

Ihor Zhaloba Self - Universität Czernowitz

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