The new selfpropelled fire fighting and rescue train "LRZ 08" of Winterthur is returning from a driver training run to Frauenfeld, towing the old not selfpropelled "LRZ 76", which will be withdraw... (more)

Rack steamlocomotive HG 3/3 1067 of Association Ballenberg Steam Railway (Verein Ballenberg Dampfbahn) with a charter train on the 12.0 % grade from Meiringen up to Brünig-Hasliberg near kilomete... (more)

Two of the seven car Intercity tilt train (ICN) running through the vineyards on the shore of Lake Biel, in the background the church of Ligerz. The train makes about 140 km p.h. (87 mph) through ... (more)

New Re 486 506 of the BLS, capable for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, with a track building crane and several ballast handling cars from Samstagern (Vanoli company) to Cadenazzo is passi... (more)

An extremly rare meeting of the only two operational "Red Arrows" on a small station in eastern part of Switzerland, crossing each other on this single track line along Untersee (lower lake) betwe... (more)

Two days before pulling the first heavy train in Switzerland on the weekend, fire on the american built 141 R 568 (2-8-2, ex French Railways SNCF) was lit. The locomotive is coal fired with a stok... (more)

Beautiful 4-6-4 "Hudson" H1b 2816 "Empress" of Canadian Pacific Railway stopped at Glacier with a steam extra to Calgary.

The "Zaugg" diesel snow blower Xrot mt # 95404 of the Rhaetian Railway for the Bernina line is turned by 180 degrees, by supporting itself on a ram on the track, lifting, rotating and lo... (more)

What a show! Two former Deutsche Bundesbahn "racehorses" are starting their 8 car train from Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg up the "Schiefe Ebene" (line built in 1848!) with a grade of 2.5 % to Marktschorgas... (more)

Doublehearder steamtrain of the Rhätische Bahn on the occasion of 125 years railway in Grison, with the two "Consolidations" G 4/5 # 107 and 108, on the return journey from Samedan to L... (more)

For my 2000th contribution on Railpictures I chose this combined moonlight with light streaks picture on the Bernina line of the Rhaetian Railway. During the winter period, in the night of the ful... (more)

The self-propelled steam rotary on a fan trip over Bernina Pass (2253 m a.s.l.), pushing (not visible) is electric rail car ABe 4/4 41. The rotary was built in 1910 by SLM Winterthur for the then ... (more)

The classic Gotthard locomotive Ae 6/6 # 11411 "Zug" of SBB Historic, based in Erstfeld, is on a charter "cab ride" from Erstfeld to Bodio, leaving the 304 meter long Polmengo ... (more)

"Crocodile" Ce 6/8 II from 1920 is dreaming in the snow from a better life, slowly rusting away.

Street running through the capital of canton Graubünden, Chur, with Ge 4/4 II # 626 "Malans" pulling the Alpine Classic Pullman Express (ACPE) to Litzirüti near Arosa.