Although there is quite a lot of freight traffic over the Bernina pass, you will almost never see a real freight train on the tracks of the Bernina railway. An exception was the wood transport after the storm Lothar in 1999. Normally all freight cars are coupled behind the normal passenger trains until their maximum load has been reached. The only exception is the Bernina Express. This train, that runs four times a day, never carries freight cars, it is a real express train that stops only at a few stations. The freight mainly consists of wood, cement and oil. Wood is transported from the north till the station of Campocologno, at the Italian border, or to the end of the line in Tirano. Here the wood is loaded from the train on to trucks that carry it further into Italy. This is done either by a small mobile crane or by a permanent available portal crane. Both cranes mentioned have been photographed in the station of Campocologno. Nowadays these cranes serve on a new transport and loading area that has been created on the other side of the river. The mobile crane is of the same type as the one used at the station of Tirano.
