On the weekend of May 21-22, 2022, the first anniversary event to celebrate 175 years of railroads in Switzerland took place, with events mainly in Olten and Basel. The iconic red arrow RAe 2/4 # ... (more)

The RAe TEE II trainset # 1053 for 4 electric systems got a revision in the workshop of the Südostbahn (SOB) in Samstagern, by order of SBB Historic. On this day it was pulled by Ae 6/6 # 11425 &... (more)

2-6-2 T Ec 3/5 # 3 of the association historic Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn (VHMThB) is leaving Olten with a train of the DVZO.

Vintage diesel power of the SBB from the 1960'. This locomotives with 3, 4 and 6 axles were built for the replacement of the last steam locomotives, mainly of the E 3/3, E 4/4 and C 5/6 series. Th... (more)

Vintage diesel power of the SBB in the industrial works in Olten. From left Em 3/3 # 18815 "Sara" built in 1963, Em 3/3 # 18824 "Emma" built 1963 and Bm 6/6 # 18505 built in 19... (more)

Diesel locomotives of the SBB in the industrial works in Olten: Em 3/3 # 18815 "Sara" of 1963, Tm IV # 9685 "Dora" of 1975 and Bm 4/4 # 18435 of 1969.

Four axle diesellocomotive Bm 4/4 # 18435 (Bm 840 # 435) of the SBB, used as shunting locomotive in the industrial works of the SBB in Olten. The locomotive with a 883 kW SLM diesel prime mover, g... (more)

The 3 types of SBB diesellocomotives built in the years 1960 to 1970, shunting in the industrial work of the SBB in Olten. In front the sixaxle Bm 6/6 # 18505, built in 1960 by SLM/BBC/SAAS and Su... (more)

Threeaxle diesel locomotive Em 3/3 # 18824 "Emma" of the SBB, used as shunter in the industrial works of the SBB in Olten. The locomotive with a 442 kW SLM diesel prime mover (6 VD 20 TrTH), gener... (more)

A lineup of older diesel locomotives operated by SBB Infrastructure and SBB Historic, respectively, at the SBB industrial plant in Olten. From left to right: Diesel tractor (small shunting locomot... (more)

Brand new "Tango" streetcar Be 6/10 # 1836 for the city of Geneva, TPG (Transports Publics Genevois), built by StadlerRail in Altenrhein. The vehicle is loaded on 4 lowfloor cars, pulled... (more)

Re 456 # 111 of the BRM in the Schweizerische Speisewagen Gesellschaft paint scheme of Bruno Müller, is pulling 4 lowloader cars with the 1 meter gauge "Tango" streetcar Be 4/10 # 1836 ... (more)

The 4-6-0 four cylinder compound express train steamlocomotive A 3/5 of SBB Historic, built in 1904 by the SLM, is on the return journey from Lyss to Zürich with a charter train from the steam ro... (more)

On Christmas Eve 2017, the SBB sent a legendary train on its journey: the Red Double Arrow "Churchill-Pfeil" RAe 4/8 # 1021 from 1939. In this way, the SBB was demonstrating its commitme... (more)

The oldest operational steamlocomotive of Switzerland is the 0-4-6 T Ec 2/5 # 28 "GENF", which was built in 1858 by Emil Kessler in Esslingen/Germany for the Schweizersiche Centralbahn (... (more)