On this beautiful summer day with a very high passenger demand, the train 1127 of the Rigi Bahnen from Vitznau to Rigi Kulm was running in three sections, on sight distance. BDhe 4/4 # 5 shoving c... (more)

Cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 4 of the Rigi Bahnen in Vitznau in front of the ship station building of 1912, which is listed as historical monument. The railcar was built in 1953 by SLM Winterthur an... (more)

Cogwheel train of the Rigi Bahnen from Vitznau to Rigi Kulm, running as second train CC 1115b between Grubisbalm and Freibergen, with Lake Lucerne, Buochserhorn, Stanserhorn, the long ridge of the... (more)

Cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 1 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1937 for the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn (VRB), is running up the mountain between Rigi Staffel and Rigi Kulm as second train CC1107b.

The most popular seats on the Rigi Bahn are probably at the front on the open platform of car B # 14, which was built in 1902 by the Rigi Bahn in its own workshop in Vitznau and has 60 seats. The ... (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)

Cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 4 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1953 for the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn, in the publicity paint scheme for MIGROS Zentralschweiz (large retailer) with snow plow X # 102 in 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)

Cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 3 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1937, reached 1 Mio. kilometers since delivering this days. Here it is standing on the turntable of Vitznau, which is beeing rebuilt with ... (more)

Cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 4 of the Rigi Bahnen, in the publicity paint scheme for the Migros Zentralscheiz (large retailer), is entering Vitznau station with train CC 1116 from Rigi Kulm. On the ... (more)

On a beautiful winter day on the "king of the mountains", the Rigi, the egineeer is slowly driving down the cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 2 of the Rigi Bahnen between Rigi Staffelhöhe and Rigi Kaltb... (more)

Cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 4 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1953, is running down the 25.0 % grade between Freibergen and Grubisbalm as second train CC 1134 from Rigi Kulm to Vitznau. This railcar g... (more)

Cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 3 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1937 when the line was electrified with 1500 V DC, is running up the 25.0 % grade between Mittlerschwanden and Grubisbalm as first train C... (more)

Cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 2 (built in 1937 by SLM and BBC with 450 horsepower) of the Rigi Bahnen is running down the 25.0 % grade between Freibergen and Grubisbalm as third train CC 1128 from Ri... (more)

Cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 2 from 1937 with car B # 8 (built 1873) of the Rigi Bahnen is running down between Rigi Kulm and Rigi Staffel.