Train CC 1145 of the Rigi Bahnen from Vitznau to Rigi Kulm is running up the 25.0 % grade below Freibergen, with the typical rocks (slightly red colored conglomerate) of the Rigi mountain in the b... (more)

Cogwheel railcar BDhe 4/4 # 21 of the Rigi Bahnen reached Vitznau as second train CC 1146b. Now the railcar, together with cab car Bt # 31, is running from the station track 1 over the curved trac... (more)

A blue/white train in Vitznau is not usual. The cogwheel trains of the former Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB) are not allowed to run on the steeper (25.0 % instead of 20.0 %) grades of the former Vitznau-Rig... (more)

When the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn (VRB) was electrified with 1500 V DC in 1937, there were ordered from SLM and BBC 3 electric railcars of type Bhe 2/4 with 72 seats and 450 horsepower. Maximum velocity ... (more)

148 years old cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler, H 1/2 # 7 out of the collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport Lucerne, loaned to the Rigi Bahnen for the 150 years anniversary, is sl... (more)

148 years old cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler, H 1/2 # 7 out of the collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport Lucerne, loaned to the Rigi Bahnen for the 150 years anniversary, is le... (more)

Exactly 150 years after the inauguration of the first cogwheel mountain railroad in Europe, the Rigi Railway from Vitznau on the shores of Lake Lucerne to the Rigi (initially to Rigi Staffelhöhe)... (more)

Exactly 150 years after the inauguration ceremony of the first cogwheel mountain railway in Europe, from Vitznau on the shore of the Vierwaldstättersee (Lake Lucerne) to the Rigi (exactly Rigi St... (more)

Exactly 150 years after the inauguration ceremony of the first cogwheel mountain railway in Europe, from Vitznau on the shore of the Vierwaldstättersee (Lake Lucerne) to the Rigi (exactly Rigi St... (more)

Exactly 150 years after the inauguration ceremony of the first cogwheel mountain railway in Europe, from Vitznau on the shore of the Vierwaldstättersee (Lake Lucerne) to the Rigi (exactly Rigi St... (more)

Exactly 150 years after the inauguration ceremony of the first cogwheel mountain railway in Europe, from Vitznau on the shore of the Vierwaldstättersee (Lake Lucerne) to the Rigi (exactly Rigi St... (more)

The Rigi Bahnen have several vehicles that bear the number 1, such as the railcar Bhe 2/4 # 1 from 1937, the battery tractor Ta 2/2 # 1 from 1982 and also the non-self-propelled diesel snow blower... (more)

The cogwheel steamlocomotive H 2/3 # 17 of the Rigi Bahnen is beeing loaded with coal in front of the depot.

Cogwheel railcar BDhe 4/4 # 5 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1965 by SLM, SIG and BBC with 1200 horsepower, came down from Rigi Kaltbad-First to Vitznau with lowloader car X # 105. On the car is a l... (more)

The cogwheel steamlocomotives H 2/3 # 17, built in 1925 by the SLM Winterthur for the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn (VRB), was steamed up for the first time this year, and so brake tests were on the agenda. T... (more)