Light oil fired modernised 2-10-0 steamlocomotive 52 # 8055 of the Dampflokomotiv und Maschinenfabrik (DLM) in Oensingen, with Neu Bechburg castle in the background. The locomotive is based in Sch... (more)

Elegant 4-4-0 steamlocomotive Eb 2/4 # 35 of SBB Historic, based in Balsthal and operated by the team from there, with a short charter train in Oensingen. The cars are the red dining/parlor car WR... (more)

Elegant 4-4-0 steamlocomotive Eb 2/4 # 35 of SBB Historic, based in Balsthal and operated by the team from there, shunting in Oensingen. The steamlocomotive Eb 2/4 was built by Emil Kessler in Ess... (more)

In 1997 Switzerland celebrated "150 years of Railways in Switzerland". Many festivities took place all over the country and all the historic locomotives could be seen everywhere - long b... (more)

It was a near miss!

Heavy fuel oil-fired former french railways (SNCF) steamlocomotive 141 R 1244, built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1946 (builder's number 75053)

SBB Historic A 3/5 at full speed: 10 years jubilee for SBB Historic operation was celebrated with a three lake roundtrip Olten – Biel – Neuenburg – Murten – Yverdon-les-Bains – Neuenburg – Biel – ... (more)

A short "waste train" on the hook of the old Ae 6/6. Many of her sisters are scrapped almost daily, SBB decided to keep 40 units running for the time being out of the orginal 120 "Gotthard queens"... (more)

A short "waste train" with slogan Waste for Energy is pulled by the old Ae 6/6. Many of her sisters are scrapped almost daily, SBB decided to keep 40 units running for the time being out of the or... (more)

A commuter train with a Bt50 cab car from Réseau Express Vaudois network, usually operating as Lausanne city commuter in the French speaking part of Switzerland. It helps out this time in the Germ... (more)

2-6-2 T Eb 3/5 5819, called "Habersack" took part at the celebration for 150 years of the St-Maurice-Monthey-St-Gingolph line in the lower Valais on the weekend of 29/30 august. The previous day t... (more)

The little tank engine E 3/3 1 (J.A.Maffei 1909) of the Oensingen-Balsthal-Bahn is leading a unique train of vintage vehicles from Oensingen to Balsthal. Other locos are Eb 2/4 35 of the former Ju... (more)

0-4-6 T locomotive GENF is the oldest original steamlocomotive in Switzerland, built by Esslingen in 1858 for the Centralbahn (SCB) and usually an exhibition in the Swiss Transport Museum in Lucer... (more)

Steamlocomotive Ec 2/5 28 "GENF", original from the year 1858, with cars of the first railway in Switzerland, the "Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn" from 1847 (replicas from 1947), on her first run with this ... (more)