ABe 4/4 47 and 48 are leaving Morteratsch station with train 1621 towards Bernina, in the rear an open top car with a group of real snowmen enjoying the trip over the highest open railwayline of t... (more)

HG 3/4 # 4 (former Furka-Oberalp Bahn) is crossing the Furka pass road near Km 48.9, a Fiat 508 Balilla 3 marce from 1932 has to wait.

A beautiful steam locomotive, by many connoisseurs said as one of the finest ever built, the Bavarian S 3/6 18 478 or 3673 (2 'C 1' "Pacific" or 4-6-2), built in 1918 by Maffei in Munich, is a fo... (more)

The first train of the day is running up the steep grade to Rothorn Kulm. Shoving is light oil fired cogwheel steamlocomotive H 2/3 # 16, built in 1992 by SLM Winterthur for the Glion-Rochers de N... (more)

At 7.15 AM, about 5 minutes before departure for the trip back home from Dresden towards Lyss/Switzerland. The former Deutsche Bundesbahn 4-6-2 express train steamlocomotive 01 # 202 of associatio... (more)

Because of a disruption (planned haevy trackwork) on the Arlberg line (Austria), the famous Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE) was diverted via Gotthard-Milan to Venice. The very long (17 cars) ... (more)

With a steady 30 km/h, the 2-10-0 steamlocomotive C 5/6 # 2978 "Elephant" is pulling the 210 ton passenger train up the 2.6 % grade of the Gotthard north ramp, between Pfaffensprung and Wassen. In... (more)

A young lady rises over a ladder on the roof of the power car 410 101 of the German ICE-S high speed test train, which is standing in front of the north portal of the new Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT... (more)

With rotating cutting drums, the powerful snow blower X rot mt # 95404, pulled by the dualpower diesel/electric Gem 4/4 # 801, is ready in Alp Grüm on track 1 to drive back to Pontresina, after t... (more)

Derailment of a Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn train near Mörel today, on the journey towards Brig and Visp, due to a grade crossing accident. A delivery truck had traveled on the private road, which w... (more)

Brand new trainset ABe 8/12 3501 "ALLEGRA" from Stadler Rail for the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) on a test run between Samedan and Pontresina. RhB will get 15 of these dual system (11000 V 16,7 Hz AC/1... (more)

Like fresh from the factory, locomotive Ae 6/6 # 11407 "Aargau" is standing on the turntable of the former Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik Winterthur (SLM), where she was b... (more)

"Crocodile" Ce 6/8 II 14253, built by SLM and MFO in 1919 for the Gotthard line of the SBB, is operational historic locomotive based in Erstfeld since 1976. Here the mighty reptile is standing on ... (more)

Like fresh from the factory, locomotive Ae 6/6 # 11407 "Aargau" is brought back by the road/track-Unimog to the Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik Winterthur (SLM), where she ... (more)

When the first train of the day from Poschiavo via the Bernina Pass to St. Moritz reached the plane of Cavaglia at about 6.50 AM, the two pantographs of the Allegra trainset, each fitted with 3 gr... (more)