In 2007, there were several celebrations for 125 years of the Gotthard railway, openend in 1882. A spectacular sight was the wrapping of some objects along the line in red fabric during some days.... (more)

The stack talk was deafening, as Reading T-1 No. 2102 accelerated a string of hoppers down the Schuylkill Valley. The headlight was off, prototypically, per the Reading experts on hand that day, ... (more)

The N&W A and J are racing past the photo line, transporting hundreds of NRHS conventioneers back to the glory days of steam. One wonders if this scene will ever be repeated...

Reading T-1 No. 2102, working upgrade along the Little Schuylkill Branch in 1991. Thirty of these locomotives (2100-2129) were produced by the Reading Shops between 1945 and 1947, heavily rebuilt... (more)

In its last year of operation, Pennsy D16sb No. 1223 runs around its mixed freight, in a view from J-Tower. Photo taken by my wife; conductor was the late H. Fox, guarding the now-gone pedestrian... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler H 1/2 # 7, built in 1873 by the SLM Winterthur as very first locomotive, is running down from Rigi Kulm to Arth-Goldau, with cars B # 5 of 1871 and C #... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler H 1/2 # 7, built in 1873 by the SLM Winterthur as very first locomotive, is shoving car B # 5 of 1871 from Vitznau up to Rigi Kulm, between Grubisbalm ... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 1/2 # 7 with upright boiler, built in 1873 by the SLM, is shoving the small passenger car B # 5 of 1871 up to Rigi Kulm, with Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstättersee) and Pila... (more)

On a beautiful spring morning, a cogwheel steamtrain of the Brienz-Rothorn Bahn (BRB) is leaving the village of Brienz up to Oberstaffel. Coal fired locomotive H 2/3 # 7 of 1936 is pushing car B #... (more)

Steamtrain with locomotive H 2/3 # 7, passenger car B # 16 and freight car M # 3 is leaving Planalp station and running down to Brienz. This was a P.M. photo charter train from Brienz to Oberstaff... (more)

This is the situation on Oberstaffel crossing station of the Brienz-Rothorn Bahn (BRB) on 1818 meter a.s.l. in the end of may 2021. The work train with cogwheel diesellocomotve Hm 2/2 # 10 of 1975... (more)

Geldried crossing station on the Brienz-Rothorn-Bahn, maybe in the 1950'? The train up to the Brienzer Rothorn with locomotive H 2/3 # 7, passenger car B # 16 and freight car M # 3 stopped to taki... (more)

A steamtrain with coalfired H 2/3 # 7 of the Brienz-Rothorn Bahn is tackling the grade of 25.0 % of the Chuemad on the journey up to the Brienzer Rothorn. You can see the line making zig-zag on th... (more)

Recreating the 1950'. The steam charter for a small group from Brienz (566 meter a.s.l.) up to the Brienzer Rothorn (2244 meter a.s.l.) made a short stop below Chuemad, on the section between Plan... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 2/3 # 7 of the Brienz-Rothorn-Bahn is running down the mountain at Chüemad with car B # 16 and freight car M # 3. This was a P.M. photo charter. The train could run to ... (more)