Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 1 "Furkahorn" of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) is crossing the Sidelenbach bridge with the "Blue Train" 157 from Realp to Oberwald, on... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 1 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) is leaving Furka DFB station and entering the Furka summit tunnel with the "Blue Train" 157 from Realp to Obe... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 1 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) is crossing the Sidelenbach creek on the ascent from Tiefenbach to Furka DFB with the "Blue Train" 157 from R... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) will pull train 157 from Realp DFB over the Furka pass to Gletsch and Oberwald. The locomotive was built by the SLM i... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) is on the way with train 157 from Realp to Oberwald. In Furka DFB, the locomotive was turned on the turntable, so she... (more)

Train 157 (called "Gegenzug" = train in the opposite direction then the "main train")of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) from Realp to Oberwald with cogwheel steamlocomoti... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) is turned on the turntable of Furka DFB station. From here to Gletsch and Oberwald, the locomotive is running chimney... (more)

On the footplate of Europe's most powerfull narrow gauge cogwheel steamlocomotive, HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB), which is running up the mountain on a grade of 11.0 % with... (more)

On the footplate of Europe's most powerfull narrow gauge cogwheel steamlocomotive, HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB), which is running up the mountain on a grade of 11.0 % with... (more)

2-6-0T cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 1 "Furkahorn" of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke, built in 1913 by SLM for the Brig-Furka-Disentis railway (BFD), is pulling train 157 (called "the Blue tr... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 1 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) is pulling the "Blue train" # 157 from Realp over the Furka pass to Gletsch (-Oberwald) over the Wiler bridge in a grad... (more)

Preparation for departure

Steam train from Realp - Furka toward Oberwald arrives in Gletsch (1757m asl) in the afternoon sun. In the background the 'Furkapassstrasse' (road over the Furkapass, 2429m asl)

Station Furka (2160m asl): Steamtrain from Realp toward Gletsch - Oberwald and shunting diesel Tm 506 in the afternoon sun

1 meter gauge adhesion/cogwheel railcar ABeh 4/4 # 306 "Lütschental" of the BOB with train 157 from Interlaken Ost to Zweilütschinen, from where this front part of the train will head ... (more)