beside its function as an important commuter station, landeck-zams also serves as an important station for the operations flow on the arlberg line, since the ramp section of europe's most difficult mountain railway (max. 26 ‰ on the east- and 31 ‰ on the west-ramp) starts in landeck. therefore, banking engines are often coupled (or decoupled) to heavy freight- or passenger trains. even the orient express takes a short stop in landeck for this reason.