With the timetable change on December 14, 2025, locomotive-hauled trains will no longer run between Switzerland and Germany on the route along the Rhine. Eurocity 31008, replacing the EC 8, is run... (more)

Former SBB Re 4/4 II # 11141 (Re 420 # 141), now owned and operated by Depot und Schienenfahrzeuge Koblenz (DSF) and brought back in the Swiss-Express paint scheme, is pulling the dynamometer car ... (more)

Former SBB Re 4/4 II # 11141 (Re 420 # 141), now owned and operated by Depot und Schienenfahrzeuge Koblenz (DSF) and brought back in the Swiss-Express paint scheme, is leaving Winterthur Töss, ru... (more)

Re 4/4 II # 11193 (Re 420 # 193) of the SBB pulls the PE 3093 GOTTHARD PANORAMA EXPRESS from Arth Goldau and Flüelen over the Gotthard mountain line to Bellinzona and Lugano through the Wattinger... (more)

It would be wonderful if all SBB Re 4/4 II locomotives (now referred to as Re 420) looked like # 11193! The locomotive was delivered to SBB by SLM and MFO on December 2, 1970, and will soon have b... (more)

Immaculate Re 4/4 II # 11193 (Re 420 # 193) of the SBB, built in 1970, is leaving the 1090 meter long Leggistein loop tunnel between Göschenen and Wassen with the PE 3092 GOTTHARD PANORAMA EXPRES... (more)

Quite surprisingly, SBB's Re 420 # 193 (Re 4/4 II # 11193) received an overhaul "R1" at the Bellinzona industrial plant dated 28.03.23. The locomotive pulls PE 3093 GOTTHARD PANORAMA EXPRESS (Gope... (more)

Quite surprisingly, SBB's Re 420 # 193 (Re 4/4 II # 11193) received an overhaul "R1" at the Bellinzona industrial plant dated 28.03.23. The locomotive pulls PE 3092 GOTTHARD PANORAMA EXP... (more)

Former SBB locomotive Re 4/4 II # 11141 (Re 420 # 141) (built 1967) of the Depot und Schienenfahrzeuge Koblenz (DSF), in the "Swiss-Express" paint scheme again since 14.09.2024, leaving ... (more)

The only green Re 4/4 II of the Cargo division, # 11335 or Re 420 # 335, pulls the parcel mail train 50066 from Frauenfeld sort center to Härkingen sort center, between Winterthur and Winterthur ... (more)

Two veteran SBB locomotives, both more then 56 years in service now, pull the punctual NightJet NJ 403 from Amsterdam to Zurich through Dietikon. Visible here are the eight 1st and 2nd class SBB c... (more)

Like fresh from the factory! The association Depot und Schienenfahrzeuge Koblenz (DSF) took over the Re 4/4 II # 11173 (Re 420 # 173) of the SBB, which was never fitted with a cab climatisation, o... (more)

Re 4/4 II # 11157 (Re 420 # 157) of the SBB with the Interregio 2315 from Basel via Lucerne-Arth Goldau-Erstfeld-Gotthard mountain line to Bellinzona and Locarno, on the Gotthard north ramp betwee... (more)

Like fresh from the factory! The association Depot und Schienenfahrzeuge Koblenz (DSF) took over the Re 4/4 II # 11173 (Re 420 # 173) of the SBB, which was never fitted with a cab climatisation, o... (more)

With 273 units, the Re 4/4 II locomotives formed the largest locomotive series ever procured by SBB. They were delivered between 1964 and 1985. The locomotive # 11141 was taken over by the SBB on ... (more)