A black locomotive with bright yellow headlamps glares out from the depths of a snow-packed rock cutting on the Brünig Railway, its bulk filling the narrow channel between ice-glazed walls while the valley below stretches white and silent under a winter Alpine sky — a rare and evocative winter composition in a genre that more often celebrated summer scenery. The hand-tinted chromolithograph captures the raw engineering audacity of the Brünigbahn's highest section, where workers blasted and chiseled a channel — the Einschnitt, or cutting — directly through the mountain's spine to carry the metre-gauge rack railway over the 1,002 m pass. Published by the prolific Chr. Brennenstuhl of Meyringen as catalog no. 111 — one of the lower numbers in what appears to be a long-running series — this undivided-back card predates 1904 and was almost certainly sold at the Brünig summit station kiosk to tourists riding what contemporaries called "the most spectacular mountain railway in Europe." The yellow headlamp detail, hand-applied by a colorist, gives the locomotive an almost animate quality against the monochrome winter setting.