Cogwheel steamlocomotive with vertical boiler H 1/2 7 on the Rigi waits for departure to Vitznau. The 1873 built locomotive returned in service for the summer season 2009.
The special flexible rack switch, a prototyp, is just moving from one to the other track. Usually operated by radio signal, in this case by the local divice. In the loop steamlocomotive 7, waiting... (more)
The first locomotive of the later wellknown Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM), built in 1873, is pushing two freight cars up the mountain on a grade of 20.0 % above Kräbel. The train has to... (more)
Parallel traffic on the "Vitznau track" (right) with H 1/2 number 7 from 1873 with car B 5 and on the "Goldau track" (left) with electric motorcar BDhe 4/4 15, cab car Bt 25 and passenger car B 33... (more)
Happy people enjoying the last weekend of unique cogwheel steamlocomotive with vertical boiler H 1/2 7 on the Rigi. The 1873 built locomotive returned to her home rails for this summer and will be... (more)
Several interesting vehicles of the Rigibahnen are slowly moving down the mountain after the parade 138 years after the opening of the railway. Because till 1992 there were two separate companies,... (more)
Cogwheel steamlocomotive number 7 is just reaching Rigi Kulm for the first time after 12 years. The locomotive was built in 1873 as first engine of the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works in Winter... (more)
Today steamlocomotive H 1/2 7, built in 1873, was officially on the mountain for the first time after 12 years in the Swiss Transport Museum Lucerne. The red car B 5 dates from 1871, when the Rigi... (more)
Cogwheel steamlocomotive 7 of the Rigi-Bahn was the first locomotive, which was built in 1873 by the later wellknown Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works in Winterthur. Exhibited since 1959 in the S... (more)
Cogwheel steamlocomotive 7, built in 1873 for the Rigibahn, returns to the tracks this summer! For brake tests the "Old Lady" is pushing passenger car 15 and a water tank car up the Rigi near Kräb... (more)
This 136 years old unique cogwheel steamlocomotive will steam up the Rigi mountain regularly this summer! Built as number 1 by the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works in 1873 for the (Vitznau-) Rig... (more)
