Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 2/3 # 17 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1925 by the SLM for the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn (VRB), is above Kräbel station with car B # 35, which was built in 1899 by SIG Neuhausen... (more)

For celebration of 150 years of the first cogwheel mountain railway in Europe, the worldwide unique operational cogwheel steamlocomotive with an upright boiler, the famous number seven, H 1/2 # 7 ... (more)

The cogwheel steamlocomotive H 1/2 # 7, built in 1873 by the SLM Winterthur for the Rigi Bahn, usually exhibited in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne, is on the rack tracks of the Rigi Bahn... (more)

This year, when the Rigi Bahnen, or more precisely the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn, are celebrating 150 years of the first cogwheel mountain railway in Europe (1871 to 2021), the famous steamlocomotive H 1/... (more)

Testrun on a grade of about 17.0 % on the Rigi Bahnen, between Arth-Goldau and Kräbel. Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 1/2 # 7, built in 1873 by the SLM Winterthur (very first locomotive of this facto... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 1/2 # 7, built in 1873 by the SLM Winterthur (very first locomotive of this factory) for the Rigi Bahn from Vitznau to Rigi Kulm, on the first test run after 12 years ex... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 1/2 # 7, built in 1873 by the SLM Winterthur (very first locomotive of this factory) for the Rigi Bahn from Vitznau to Rigi Kulm, on the first test run after 12 years ex... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 1/2 # 7, built in 1873 by the SLM Winterthur (very first locomotive of this factory) for the Rigi Bahn from Vitznau to Rigi Kulm, made the first test run this day after ... (more)

460108 approaches Arth-Goldau with an Erstfeld-Zürich IR service

SBB Cargo International started using new locomotives type BR 193 for it's transit traffic through Switzerland. 193 259 is on the way to Gotthard with train 40245 and is just about to reach the e... (more)

This is Switzerland on its National Day! Cows, a cogwheel steam locomotive, a beautiful train and a very happy locomotive driver!

The Rigibahnen operates a shuttle steam train between Rigi Staffel and Rigi Kulm, the summit station of "the king of mountains" on the Swiss National Day, August 1st. The locomotive is a... (more)

Usually Be 4/6 12332 can be found inside the traffic museum in Lucerne. A few years ago though the oldtimer was restored at the depot in Erstfeld for some time. In March 2012, it started the way... (more)