The 12.04 Basle to Locarno train passes the village of Sisikon on the shore of the Vierwaldstattersee (Lake Lucerne). From Fluelen, the next station, it will become the 'Wilhelm Tell Express'.

On a glorious September afternoon a recently re-painted DB 185 electric approaches Fluelen station beside the Vierwaldstattersee (Lake Lucerne) with a southbound freight train bound for Italy. Fro... (more)

Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn Deh 4/4i 51 begins its steep climb out of Göschenen towards Andermatt

Shortly after beginning its long climb up the Gotthard nordramp, Re 4/4ii 11338 heads a southbound engineers train through Silenen

Re 6/6 No 11619 'Arbon' has just crossed the Intschi Reuss bridge with a southbound train of engineering vehicles on the climb to the Gotthard tunnel.

Former Cisalpino ETR 470 tilting emu No 3, now with SBB decals, forms the 11.09 Zurich HB to Milano Centrale train seen on the climb from Erstfeld to the Gotthard tunnel.

One of the SBB ICN tilting trains crosses the Charstellenbach bridge at Amsteg while descending the Gotthard north ramp as the 14.10 Lugano to Zurich service.

A pair of SBB ICN units, 'Alfred Escher' and ' Louis Chevrolet' tackle the north ramp of the Gotthard line just below Inschi forming the 11.03 Basle to Lugano service.

An almost new SBB Cargo Re 482 electric passes Sissikon station with a southbound Hupac 'piggy back' train beside the Vier Wald Stattersee (Lake Lucerne) as an empty double deck car train (auto ra... (more)

The first of the production series of Class Ae 6/6 Co-Co electrics, No 11403 'Schywz' leaves the St.Gotthard Tunnel with a northbound express from Italy on a very wet June day.

In the same location as SpirosN's shot of the Cisalpino in the snow below Wassen, an Re 4/4 II heads the 10.04 Basle to Locarno train on the northern ramp to the Gotthard tunnel.

The 13.09 Zurich to Milano climbs between Intschi and Gurtnellen on the northern ramp to the Gotthard tunnel.

'The Italian Job' - a train load of BMW Minis manufactured at Cowley, Oxford in the UK, climbs past Gurtnellen on the northern ramp to the Gotthard tunnel enroute to Italy..

Two four-cylinder compound locos, Nos 705 (built 1904) and 2978 (built 1917) are seen descending from the Gotthard tunnel towards Gurtnellen with the special train returning from Bellinzona to Ers... (more)

Two four-cylinder compound locos, Nos 705 (built 1904) and 2978 (built 1917) are seen in heavy rain below the church at Wassen, which they will pass two more times as they climb to the Gotthard tu... (more)