Diesel locmotive Am 843 # 073 of SBB Cargo is shoving the Re 460 # 079 with publicity paint scheme (adhesives) for the "Crédit Suisse" and Gottardo 2016 through the park near the Swiss ... (more)

15 meter long piece of the new Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) in original size, exhibited in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne. All relevant pieces of the bore are demonstrated here.

Steamlocomotive Ec 2/5 # 28 "Genf" (left) is the oldest operational in Switzerland, built in 1858 by Emil Kessler in Esslingen/Germany for the Schweizerische Centralbahn SCB (Hauenstein line Basel... (more)

Electric locomotive Be 5/7 # 151 (in fact it is # 161, but has the numberplates of 151) of the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Bahn, built in 1913 by SLM, BBC and MFO for the new Lötschberg mountain lin... (more)

An interesting look at the early days of railway electrification. The locomotive Ge 2/4 # 207 of the Rhaetian Railway, built in 1913 for the new and from the beginning electrified (11000 V AC 16.7... (more)

View into the cab of the 2-10-0 four cylinder compound steamlocomotive "Elephant" C 5/6 # 2965 of SBB Historic, exhibited in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne. Built by SLM in 1916 (100 yea... (more)

The 1 meter gauge "Rhaetian Crocodile" Ge 6/6 I # 402 of the RhB was built by SLM, MFO and BBC in 1921 and in operation till 1985. Since then exhibited in the Swiss Museum of Transport (... (more)

Another "Crocodile", owned by SBB Historic, is exhibited in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne (VHS), the Be 6/8 II # 13254. The 126 metric ton locomotive was built by SLM and MFO in 1919 fo... (more)

Fellow RP contributor Jason Hickling leans out of this 1943 built,narrow gauge battery loco, which is displayed outside at Luzern transport museum. The display board says "Oberhasli power sta... (more)

Locomotive Ge 4/4 I # 602 "Bernina" of the Rhaetian Railway was withdrawn after 65 years in service in the year 2012, and exhibited in the Swiss Museum of Transport (VHS) in Lucerne sinc... (more)

Today, it is just one year or 365 days till the 57 kilometer long Gotthard base tunnel will be inaugurated. During a media presentation in Lucerne, the Re 420 268 in the new white paint scheme was... (more)

Today, it is just one year or 365 days till the Gotthard base tunnel will be inaugurated. During a media presentation in Lucerne, the locomotive Re 460 098 was baptized "Biasca" and Re 4... (more)

Lovely spring scenery at the lake 'Rotsee': localtrain line S 1 from Baar to Luzern between Ebikon and Gütsch. There is a nice walking trail around this lake and near the tracks

Double deck InterRegio from Zürich to Luzern between Ebikon and Gütsch

Four railcars run uphill from Alpnachstad to Pilatus Kulm, here they are between Aemsigen and the upper station