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)

Brand new fire-fighting and rescue train "LRZ14" (Lösch- und Rettungszug LRZ14) of the SBB on a test drive on the Gotthard line above Erstfeld in a grade of 2.7 %. The 4 vehicles train ... (more)

The direct route from A to B is not always the best. If the gradient is too steep, an additional loop is an advantage. Around 1906, for example, the engineers used this spiral-shaped track guide t... (more)

Calibration car (scale test car) Xas # 80 85 98-22 101-4 (home base Yverdon, built in 1978) at Weinfelden. This special car is used for calibrating the weighbridges at railway stations. Several we... (more)

Brandnew doubledeck commuter trainset RABe 511 001 "DOSTO RV" from StadlerRail for the SBB on a test run near Erlen. Capable for 160 km p.h., max 6000 kW, max 1327 passengers (526 seating). They w... (more)

The brand new snow blower X rot mt 95403 of the RhB in action near Ospizio Bernina. Shoving is dual system locomotive Gem 4/4 802 (electric/diesel). The new snow fighting system from Zaugg/Eggiwil... (more)

Exactly on the date, but 58 years later, the classic 6000 HP Gotthard locomotive Ae 6/6 # 11407 "Aargau" made her second "maiden run", brought back mainly in the delivery state from 1956, with a l... (more)

Baggage railcar De 4/4 # 1679 of SBB Historic (Be 4/6 group Winterthur) in Zürich main station, with dining car Dr # 10112, festively decorated for the raclette fun event.

The huge 1-meter gauge Garratt 5918 "Mount Gelai" of the famous class 59 of the East African Railways, now belonging to Nairobi Railway Museum, on the way from the workshops to Nairobi station for... (more)

"Bernina Crocodile" Ge 4/4 # 182 of the RhB is rounding the Montebello curve near Morteratsch with a nice mixed passenger and freight train, during a privately organised RM photo charter. In the b... (more)

Introduction of a new publicity paint scheme on Re 460 036 in Zürich mainstation with a woman in traditional japanese clothing "Kimono". Re 460 036 will run as "Welcome to Japan&qu... (more)

Snow, sun and blue sky. Spectacular action of powerful snow blower X rot mt # 95404 and electric/diesel locomotive Gem 4/4 # 801 (in diesel mode) in the "panorama curve" with a radius of 45 metres... (more)

The new dual system trainset "Allegra" for the Rhaetian Railway on a test run near Punt Muragl between Samedan and Pontresina. RhB will get 15 of this powerfull trains (2,6 MW) from Stadler Rail.

In the RhB's open observation car in a very slow speed across the floating Brückentobel creek at Bärentritt (bears trap) betweeen Davos Wiesen and Davos Monstein. The gap between the Wiesen I tu... (more)

Unique steam motor car CZm 1/2 31 of the former Uerikon-Bauma Bahn and now belonging to SBB Historic (operated by Steam Group Zürich), on his original line with the snowplow X 59 of DVZO.