"Like a rocket" the german test train ICE S 410 # 101/102 is leaving the 57 kilometer long Gotthard Base Tunnel at Rynächt near Erstfeld, with about 275 km p.h. (170 miles per hour). This high sp... (more)

This Re 4/4 II was built 1969 for the MThB Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn with the number 21 and came to the SBB in 2003 with the number 11172. The "SBB CFF" on the side walls and the numbers are a... (more)

The last green painted Re 4/4 II of the SBB passenger department is pulling the IR 2332 from Locarno to Basel SBB.

Trenitalia tilting trainset 610 001 on the way to Zürich HB as EC 18.

The steamlocomotive D 1/3 # 1 "LIMMAT" was built in 1847 by Emil Kessler in Esslingen/Germany for the first swiss railway from Zürich to Baden, called the "Spanisch Brötli Bahn&qu... (more)

Railcar BDe 4/4 # 1646 of SBB Historic in Erstfeld. This vehicle was built in 1954 by SLM/SIG/BBC/MFO for service on branchlines. From 1995 to 2005 used for pulling the education train "Schwalbe" ... (more)

Ae 3/5 # 10217 with a Westinghouse/Sécheron single axle drive was built in 1924 by SLM and SAAS for mixed service. It was in service in the western part of Switzerland, but some vehicles of the s... (more)

Former Gotthard express train locomotive Be 4/7 # 12504 with Westinghouse/Sécheron single axle drive, built in 1922 by SLM and SAAS. The locomotive ran on the Gotthard line between 1923 and 1932,... (more)

Ae 6/6 # 11411 "Zug" and RAe TEE II # 1053 of SBB Historic in Erstfeld on the occasion of the Gotthard Base Tunnel opening event. The engine foreman Röbi in the orange overall gives informations ... (more)

An extremely worn out and rusty "Crocodile" is the Ce 6/8 II # 14270, which was exhibited outside in Erstfeld from 1982 to 2013. Probably, it will see a better future as monument in Zürich Oerlik... (more)

Two very different steamlocomotives. The D 1/3 # 1 "LIMMAT" from 1847 (in fact a operational replica from 1947) is pushed by the express train locomotive A 3/5 # 705 from 1904.

Mixed train locomotive Ae 3/6 II # 10439, built in 1925 by SLM and MFO and based in Olten. In the background Ae 6/6 # 11425 "Genève/Genf" from 1957, based in Olten, and RAe TEE II # 105... (more)

Lineup in front of the large shed in Erstfeld, from left to right: Re 482 # 026 of SBB Cargo International. Re 620 # 033 (Re 6/6 11633) "Muri AG). Ae 6/6 # 11421 "Graubünden/Grischun". Ae 4/7 # 1... (more)

Lineup in front of the large shed in Erstfeld, from left to right: Ae 4/7 # 10976 from 1931, with Buchli single axle drive and based in St-Maurice. "Roebuck" Be 4/6 # 12320 from 1921 and... (more)

While the D 1/3 # 1 "LIMMAT", a replica from 1947 of the first swiss steamlocomotive from 1847, is turned on the turntable in Erstfeld, the "Elephant" C 5/6 # 2978 is moving in... (more)