Using Helicopters to Install Masts

[pandmaster]

SBB said it had completed the Mendrisio – Stabio section on time and on budget, thanks to innovative engineering techniques including the use of helicopters to install more than 500 catenary masts.

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/infrastructure/single-view/view/swiss-border-link-inaugurated.html

How about using helicopters to install masts on the Moreton Bay line and the second Coomera-Helensvale track?

[Gazza]

Depends....What was the reason for using them.there? Rugged spwiss terrain?

[#Metro]

The Swiss have extensive rack railway and mini-rail (more like LRT) connecting smaller towns. Services I think were every 30 minutes or so, so not that flash, fares were mindblowingly expensive, and single track along the road with too many level crossings across driveways to poke a stick at.

It is surprising that rail developed so extensively in such a hilly country. Where there is a mountain, they just put a tunnel through the bottom of it. I guess they are wealthy enough to do that. Plenty of rack railways going straight up mountains.