The steam rotary snow blower R # 12 (former Xrot d # 9212 of the Rhaetian Railway main network, built by SLM in 1913) is turning the blower wheel in front of the car shed in Realp DFB. Operational... (more)

The rotary steam snow blower R # 12 (Xrot d # 9212) of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke is turning the 2,5 meter/6,7 feet diameter blowing wheel with up to 150 turns per minute. This vehicle, built... (more)

"hot inspection" by the boiler inspector of the SVTI (Swiss association for the safety of technical systems and devices) of the rotary steam snow blower R # 12 (Xrot d # 9212) of the Dampfbahn Fur... (more)

Welcome to the good room, it is heated. Joking aside, we are on the stoker stand of a steam vehicle, the steam snowplow R # 12 (or Xrot d # 9212), built in 1913 by the SLM for the RhB for the main... (more)

Front cab of the "Rotary" steam snow blower R # 12, built by the SLM in 1913 for the Rhaetian Railway, main network (Xrot d # 9212). This not self propelled vehicle, but with an auxiliary small st... (more)

The self-propelled 0-6-0+0-6-0 rotary snow blower Xrot d # 9213 was built in 1910 by the SLM Winterthur as R # 1051 for the then independent Bernina Railway. The metre-gauge adhesion railway over ... (more)

The self-propelled steam rotary snow blower Xrot d # 9213 of the Rhaetian Railway, built in 1910 by the SLM Winterthur as R # 1051 for the Bernina Railway, is crossing the bridge over the water fa... (more)

Self propelled 0-6-0+0-6-0 steam rotary snow blower Xrot d # 9213 from 1913 is entering Ospizio Bernina station on the occasion of the snow fighting demonstration event.

Self propelled 0-6-0+0-6-0 steam rotary snow blower Xrot d # 9213 of the RhB, built in 1910 by SLM Winterthur for the then independent Bernina Railway, is on a staff training run in the rocky cutt... (more)

On the Bernina pass line south of Ospizio Bernina along Lago Bianco, the steam rotary snow blower Xrot d # 9213 is clearing the track from snow, which was pulled from the sides by the snow scrappe... (more)

Self propelled 0-6-0+0-6-0 steam rotary snow blower Xrot d # 9213 of the RhB near Ospizio Bernina. The impeller has a 2,5 meter diameter and turns with up to 170 revolution per minute, driven by a... (more)

Steam rotary snow blower Xrot d # 9213 on Ospizio Bernina with open service flaps and driver's cab door. Clearly visible the two threeaxle drives, arranged according to Meyer design with the cylin... (more)

The self propelled 0-6-0+0-6-0 steam rotary snow blower Xrot d # 9213 of the Rhaetian Railway, built in 1910 by SLM Winterthur for the Bernina Railway as R # 1051. Still operational, based in Pont... (more)

In the cab of the rotary steam blower Xrot d # 9213 from 1910, which is a sort of "cab forward" (compare with picture ID 648763). View backwards to the boiler, with smokebox door and chimney above... (more)

Steam rotary snow blower Xrot d # 9213 from 1910 after the snow fighting demonstration event, ready to run back to the home base Pontresina. In the background "Bernina crocodile" Ge 4/4 ... (more)