Today the line's trackbed, which is 6.7 kilometres (4 mi) in length, and includes a 70-metre (230 ft) tunnel and several bridges, is a rail trail, which serves as a panoramic footpath in summer, and as a route for cross-country skiing in winter .

Instead, the two lines met at right angles, and provision was made for the transfer of passengers and goods.

[2] With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the tourist industry collapsed and never recovered in the same form.

When tourists did return to the mountains, they came as day trippers, meaning that the mountain-top hotels were no longer needed.

That hit the Rigi–Scheidegg railway particularly hard, and the line closed on the 21 September 1931, never to reopen.