The 15.59 Arth Goldau to Bellinzona stopping train approaches Goschenen at the end of the climb to the Gotthard tunnel behind 5,540hp 1ABoA1 electric loco No 10803.

Four-cylinder compound 2-10-0 No 2962 awaits a call that may never come while on standby duty at Basel SBB depot.

Ae 3/6 I 4-6-2 electric No 10633 shunts a local westbound freight train at Arbon. In the background is the Saurer factory where many of the well known Swiss post busses and other commercial vehicl... (more)

On the former Bodensee-Toggenburg-Bahn, a BT emu leaves the Wasserfluh tunnel and approaches Lichtensteig station on a St.Gallen to Rapperswil local service. Six of these units were built for the ... (more)

Four-cylinder compound 2-10-0 No 2958 is on standby duty at Olten depot in 1964. There were 28 of these locomotives built by SLM in 1913-17 numbered 2951-78. Known as 'Elephants' No 2978 was the l... (more)

Another piece of SBB exotica, now long scrapped, the so called 'Jura Pfeil' (Jura Arrow) railcar stands at Kreuzlingen while working the shuttle service to Konstanz only a few hundred metres over ... (more)

Named after the town its home depot is located in, No 11464 'Erstfeld' pulls into the loop at the St.Fiden station in St.Gallen with a heavy train of loaded stone hoppers.

SBB 2-6-2T No 5820 on hire to the Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn passes the MThB depot at Weinfelden with an evening freight for Wil. Thirty-four of these engines were built for the SBB by SLM in1911-16. On... (more)

The middle of three 1AA1AA1+1AA1AA1 double locos Nos 11801, 11851 and 11852, built for the Gotthard line in 1931, 1932 and 1939 arrives at the top of the north ramp from Erstfeld to the Gotthard t... (more)

Rod drive 4-6-2 electric No 10459 passes under what was to become the last semaphore signal gantry in Switzerland as it arrives at Romanshorn with the 11.22 Rorschach to Schaffhausen train. The we... (more)

The first of the four Ec 3/5 2-6-2Ts built by SLM for the Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn in 1912 stands at Weinfelden loco depot shortly before the line was electrified. Withdrawn No 4 can be seen on the lef... (more)

Aged BLS 1B-B1 electric No 302 from 1920 waits in Spiez station with a freight train from Bern on an August night in 1964.

One of the 15 'Baby Crocodiles' built for the metre gauge Rhatian Railway in 1925-29, leaves Rothenbrunnen with a Chur to Davos mixed train. The river is the Hinterrhein, one of the arms of the mi... (more)

By this date a rare sight in Switzerland. MThB 2-6-2T No 2 is seen at the Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn depot in the company of two SBB Eb 3/5 2-6-2Ts Nos 5829 and 5820 at Weinfelden. The MThB had four of t... (more)

One of the five BLS double locos, No 271 built in 1959 leaves the Lotschberg tunnel at Goppenstein with a southbound freight train 32 years ago. These engines had a rating of 8,000hp for working t... (more)