The trip to the summit of 7000-foot Mount Pilatus commences by sailing in the veteran paddle steamer Unterwalden, built in 1903 by Escher Wyss in Zurich, and still steaming on her original Scotch boilers a century later. Unterwalden sails from Luzern to Alpnachsstad, passing under the low level Acheregg Bridge en route. This requires the retraction of several parts of her superstructure. From the early 1960s until the mid 1990s her 2 masts were racked down into her hull and she is seen here at Alpnachsstad in 1992 with her aft (main) mast so retracted. At this pier it is a short walk to the bottom station of the Pilatusbahm, the railway to the top of Mount Pilatus

The trip to the summit of 7000-foot Mount Pilatus commences by sailing in the veteran paddle steamer Unterwalden, built in 1903 by Escher Wyss in Zurich, and still steaming on her original Scotch boilers a century later. Unterwalden sails from Luzern to Alpnachsstad, passing under the low level Acheregg Bridge en route. This requires the retraction of several parts of her superstructure. From the early 1960s until the mid 1990s her 2 masts were racked down into her hull and she is seen here at Alpnachsstad in 1992 with her aft (main) mast so retracted. At this pier it is a short walk to the bottom station of the Pilatusbahm, the railway to the top of Mount Pilatus