The SBB Cargo Eem 923 027-7 bimodal (electro-diesel) shunter locomotive seen at Spiez station with a local freight train

Spiez is located on the Bern to Brig main line of the BLS - we arrived from the branch to Interlaken which has region Lötschberger trains and long-distance trains from Zürich or Frankfurt (ICE), sometimes even from Paris (TGV) and continued on the other branch to Zweisimmen, departure point of the MOB, through the Simmental. To keep up with the elevation, sometimes the track has to cross side valleys on viaducts which renders the local railway a very different character than the Interlaken branch situated between the Thunersee and the almost vertical rock wall that serves as its bank.