Cogwheel material train with a special car for work at the catenary runs to Rochers de Naye, taken near the upper station (1970 meters over sealevel). The switch in the foreground is the first swi... (more)

A historic special train of the Bayerische Zugspitzbahn, a cog railroad line from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to the top of the Zugspitze at almost 3000m (9800 ft), is waiting to depart. This engine wa... (more)

Waving hands between the two engineers of the trains. An EMU, and a Diesel-Electric locomotive.

Shay number 4 speeds through the forests of the Cass Mountain Scenic Railway as it pulls it's coaches back down the mountain.

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 4 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke is pulling train 131 from Realp over Furka pass to Oberwald and is reaching the destination shortly.

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 4 of the DFB with the second train of the day from Realp over the Furka pass to Oberwald, shortly after Gletsch. Once in the background was Rhone glacier visible,... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 4 from 1913 is leaving Gletsch with train 160 from Oberwald to Realp and tackling the heavy grade of 11.0 % up to Muttbach. On the right "Blue House", part of the... (more)

Overview of Realp stations of Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (left) and Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn (right), with a connecting track in the foreground. In the non electrified DFB station, steamtrain 131... (more)

With open cylinder valves, the cogwheel steam locomotive HG 3/4 # 4 of the DFB is on the usual test drive from the depot Realp to the beginning of the rack section near the Wiler bridge. Afterward... (more)

With an impressive plume of black smoke, cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 4 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke is pulling train 160 from Oberwald to Realp over the rack section between Oberwald a... (more)

Four cylinder compound cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 4 of the DFB, built in 1913 by SLM Winterthur for the Brig-Furka-Disentis (BFD) and running for the Furka-Oberalp-Bahn (FO) from 1926, leav... (more)

Four cylinder compound cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 4 of the DFB, built in 1913 by SLM Winterthur for the Brig-Furka-Disentis (BFD) and running for the Furka-Oberalp-Bahn (FO) from 1926. Sinc... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 4 of the DFB with the train 160 from Oberwald via Gletsch and Furka to Realp on the rack section above Oberwald towards Gletsch.

Train 131 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) from Realp to Oberwald via Furka and Gletsch is ready for departure, pulled by cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 4 from 1913. On the right the tr... (more)