Open doors days in the workplace of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke at Uzwil. The heavy 1 meter gauge, 0-8-0 fourcylinder compound cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 is finished after more the... (more)

The two lonely Re 4/4 II in "Swiss Express" paint scheme, # 11108 and 11109, are together pulling the 15 car "Venice Simplon-Orient-Express" (VSOE) from Basel via the Gotthard into Chiasso station... (more)

Former Austrian Railways electrolocomotive 1042 # 041 (3600 kW, 130 km/h), now running for Widmer Rail Services (WRS) in Switzerland, is pulling 23 empty Uagps grain hoppers of the romanian "SC Ro... (more)

Inspired for the appearance from North America, with round shapes and a bulldog nose, this electric 4 axle express train locomotive was built by ASEA in 1955 for the swedish Statens Järnvägar (S... (more)

View onto the construction site for the new Albula tunnel II in Spinas. The new single bore tunnel will be built parallel to the existing, 5864 meter long tunnel opened in 1903. When the new tunne... (more)

Like a mirror is Columbia river early in the morning at 7 , when CP 9832 is shoving a heavy coal train from the Rockies towards the Port of Roberts Bank in Vancouver. In front were her sisters CP ... (more)

View onto the traffic hub Brig in the upper Valais, gateway to the Simplon railway tunnel and the Simplon pass, where the Lötschberg mountain line (middle in the foreground) meets the SBB from Ge... (more)

New Flirt trainset type BM 74 for the Norwegian State Railways (NSB). Stadler Rail has an order of 50 of this 5 car trainsets for Interregio and suburban service (different interior equipment), ca... (more)

Today the completely refurbished "Blue Arrow" (Blauer Pfeil) BCFe 4/6 # 736 had the second maiden run from Berne to Marin-Epagnier (line to Neuchâtel) and back. The articulated railcar ... (more)

For the celebration of 125 years Railway in Graubünden, the RhB organized a double traction steam train with her two "Consolidations" G 4/5 # 107 "Albula" and # 108 "Enga... (more)

"Muni" HGe 4/4 I # 1992 "Giswil" of zb Historic with the "Zentralschweizer Whiskyzügli" from Meiringen back to Lucerne, on the 12.0 % cogwheel grade from Meiringen to Brünig-Hasliberg. The cars ... (more)

The running gear of the steam locomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Furka mountain railway (Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke, DFB) is a masterpiece of earlier engineering. Designed and built in 1923 at the Sw... (more)

Brand new doubledeck TGV 2N2 4701 (tricourant for services to Germany and Switzerland), first of the series 4701 - 4755, on a overhead wire test run with up to 176 km p.h. in Switzerland, on the l... (more)

Over night, a breath of snow fell at Brusio, which is on 780 meter a.s.l. "Allegra" railcar ABe 8/12 # 3503 of the RhB is pulling the 6 car regional train 4640 from Tirano to St.Moritz towards the... (more)

Two of the very first vehicles of the Bernina Railway (since 1944 belonging to RhB), which is celebrating 100 years, staged on the spiral viaduct of Brusio. Railcar ABe 4/4 34 was built in 1908 as... (more)