Test train

Giorgio Giugiaro designed highspeed tilting train ETR 610 is running with 150 km/h through the Valais from Milan to Geneva, below the empty vineyards of Molignon.

"Domino" push pull train RA 09 with electric railcar RBDe 560 409 together with a second of the same type in multiple is running the Regio 4419 from St-Gingolph to Brig.

Re 460 031 with publicity paint scheme for "Mobil Bonus" is pulling Interregio train 1422 from Brig to Geneva Airport.

This is the former NINA # 038 of the BLS, which is now owned by the SBB-daughter "RegionAlps". RABe 525 038 is running the Regio 4415 St-Gingolph - Brig between Sion and St-Léonard.

Highspeed tilting train ETR 610 of the SBB as Eurocity 32 from Milan to Geneva running through the Valais, with 3934 meter high Bietschhorn in the background.

Two coupled three car DOMINO trains of RegionAlps running from Brig to Monthey near St-Leonard. RegionAlps is a daughter company of SBB (70 %), Transports de Martigny et Region SA (18 %) and Canto... (more)

Brand new tilting train ETR 610 002 from ALSTOM Savigliano on the homologation run is speeding through the Rhone valley with 100 miles per hour. The train is built for 250 kilometer per hour maxim... (more)

When ETR 610 008 came from Italy to Switzerland this day, it was the first of the new trainsets with the entire outside lettering and Cisalpino-Logo.

It was the very very last moment to press the trigger, when both trains passed with 140 kph! In the foreground the cabcar of train IR 1718 Brig-Geneva, racing towards me the Eurocity Cisalpino 123... (more)

A regional train from Sion to Brig is racing through the Rhone valley, in front the cabcar Bt and in the rear the electric motorcar RBDe 560, together called "NPZ" (Shortdistance Pushpull Train). ... (more)

Ae 6/6 11470 is pulling a freight from Sierre through the Rhone valley to Lausanne shunting yard. Above the train in the far distance the 3934 m high Bietschhorn. It is very rare to find snow in t... (more)

Winter came early this year even in the valley bottom of the Valais. Re 6/6 11680 with name and blazon of "Möhlin" is pulling a train with timber from Lausanne shunting yard to Domodossola, the ... (more)

New tilttrain ETR 610 for Cisalpino on a test run from Geneva through the Rhone valley to Brig. Above the train the 2969 metre high Haut de Cry.

The fastest locomotive of the world (357 kph) was in Switzerland for some days in autumn 2006. 1216 050 races towards Sion with about 160 kph. Just in these days, the engine gets a new paint sche... (more)