The 2,96 meter (9,7 feet) diameter blowing wheel of the "Rotary" steam snow blower Xrot # 100 is turning with up to 140 times per minute and can throw snow up to 90 meter (290 ft) wide. The impres... (more)
Steam rotary snow blower Xrot # 100 of SBB Historic, built in 1896 by Henschel & Sohn in Cassel/Germany for the Gotthard Railway, on the turntable of the Bahnpark Brugg AG. This day, a few minutes... (more)
In the "cab" of the "Rotary" steam snow blower Xrot # 100 of SBB Historic, built in 1896 by Henschel & Sohn in Cassel/Germany for the Gotthard Railway. The red lever is the thr... (more)
A very satisfied group in the evening of the 9th february in front of the new operational "Rotary" steam snowblower Xrot # 100 from 1896, on the turntable of the Bahnpark Brugg. What has... (more)
40 years after the steam rotary snow blower Xrot # 100 was retired and exhibited in the Swiss Museum of Transport (VHS) Lucerne, this 125 years old vehicle was steamed up this day in Brugg AG. Wor... (more)