Liberia 5 Dollars Silver Coin 2011 History of Railroads, Bernina Express

Liberia 5 Dollars Silver Coin 2011 History of Railroads, Bernina Express

Silver .999 Coin From "HISTORY OF RAILROADS" Series

"History of Railroads" proof series is dominated by a splendid full-colour design portraying the world's most well known trains. This issue honors the Bernina Express, the Swiss scenic train that serves cities including Lugano, St. Moritz, Chur to Tirano through a landscape from ice-age glaciers to palm trees. Official legal tender of Liberia, each coin is an extremely exclusive limited edition.
The coin is dominated by a splendid full and vivid colour design portraying a Swiss train. The coin’s obverse depicts the Liberian Republic emblem.

In the series "History of Railroads" were issued these coins: 

Flying Scotsman,  Trans-Siberian Railway,  Adler,  Sharp Stewart, Royal Hudson,  Bernina Express,  Blue Train,  Mallard,  Flam Line,  MAV-220,  Shinkansen 500,  Union Pacific Big Boy,  Trans Europ Express,  Durango & Silverton, Austrian State Railroad,  China Railways,  TGV Réseau,  Indian Pacific,  PKP Fablok OL 49 Poland.

Bernina Express
The Bernina Express is a train connecting Chur (or Davos) in Switzerland with Poschiavo and Tirano in Italy by crossing the Swiss Alps. For most of its journey, the train also passes along and through the World Heritage Site known as the Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes.

The train is operated by the Rhaetian Railway company, mostly for the purpose of sightseeing. It is composed of panoramic coaches in which a piped multi-lingual commentary plays. It is not an express in the sense of being a high-speed train; passengers must pay a small supplement and make a seat reservation. The train is popular with tourists, and connects in Tirano with the Post Bus service via Lake Como in Italy to Lugano in Switzerland.

The Albula line and the Bernina line on the Bernina Express route were jointly declared a World Heritage Site in 2008. The trip on the Bernina Express through this World Heritage Site is a four-hour railway journey across 196 bridges, through 55 tunnels and across the Bernina Pass on the highest point at 2,253 metres in altitude. The entire line is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) (metre gauge).

The Albula line was constructed between 1898 and 1904, and has been operated by the Rhaetian Railway ever since. The Bernina Railway built the Bernina line between 1908 and 1910, and then operated it independently until the 1940s, when the Rhaetian Railway took it over. The Bernina Express uses gradients of 7% to negotiate the difference in height of about 1800 meters from the summit at Ospizio Bernina to Tirano.