The last train of the day will soon reach Brocken train station to enable a visit to the highest mountain in northern Germany with a steam-powered narrow-gauge railway - only a few meters are stil... (more)

99 222 is heading the 2nd passenger train to the Brocken on this beautiful winter day. The train has just passed the level crossing east of Schierke. The footprints in the snow beside the tack are... (more)

With the second passenger train on the Selketalbahn, 99 7243 is heading to the stopover station Drahtzug on this bright fall morning, with leafs in full foliage.

When 99 7241 climbed the Brocken in the late afternoon of October 22, 2024, the exhaust steam spread like a cloud of fog over the dense spruce and fir forests along the Brocken route.

On this crisp and clear fall morning, 99 7243 with the first passenger train to Harzgerode, is heading to the stopover station of Drahtzug (named after a former wire drawing company located here) ... (more)

Narrow gauge engine 99 7243 has left Quedlinburg with the first passenger train of the day and is now leaving Bad Suderode on the steep grade to Gernrode in service of the Selketalbahn.

The HSB 99-7238 is leaving Wernigerode with a passenger train to the Brocken.

With the first steam train of the day on the Selketalbahn, coming from Gernrode, the 99 6001 reached Harzgerode station on the morning of December 27th.

99 7243-1 on October 8th, 2023 with the last train of the day to the Brocken while crossing the Westerntor intersection in Wernigerode.

Ascent to the Brocken at full steam

Locomotive 99 234 of the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen has reached the hiking trail named after the German poet Goethe "Goetheweg" at the Brocken mountain and will soon turn into the brockensp... (more)

The Steam locomotive 99 7241-5 takes the train 8931 past Drei Annen Hohne.

In two specific time windows it is possible to photograph the last train on the Brocken (highest mountain in the Harz) in the light of the low sun and you will be surprised again and again by impr... (more)

Warm late afternoon light bathes 99 7243-1 as it snakes its way through a series of S-curves leading to Schierke, the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen's last stop before the summit of the Brocken.

The HSB 99 7238 hauling the first passenger train of the day is emerging from the unique tunnel of the Harz system which is located half way between Wernigerode and Drei Annen Hohne.