The end of the line at Vitznau leads straight onto the turntable and into the car shops behind where I was standing. From here there is a ship service to Luzern (Lucerne).

View through the cab side-window shows the extreme nature of mountain rack-railways, descending the 25% grade to Vitznau.

Uphill Rigi Bahn train passes downhill counterpart.

While Bhe 2/4 3 with the shuttle is waiting in the siding, his brother number 1 is arriving with a train down from Rigi Kulm towards Vitznau (left) and a other train of the former Arth-Rigi-Bahn i... (more)

Bhe 2/4 3 is pushing the Kk 26, a special car for standing passengers, sledges and skis, up the hill from Rigi Kaltbad to Staffel. This train serves as a shuttle between this stations.

Well known steam enthusiast Martin Horath is driving "his" H 2/3 up the 20.0 % grade from Rigi Staffel to the Kulm (1752 m a.s.l.) on a beautiful winter day. The locomotive was built in 1923 by S... (more)

Great fun on the bob run down from Rigi Kulm. BDhe 4/4 15 with cab car Bt 25 and car 34 is on duty for the shuttle train between Klösterli and Kulm.

BDhe 4/4 21 with cab car Bt 31 below Rigi Kulm with a train to Vitznau, followed by Bhe 2/4 1 on sight distance.

The first railcar after electrification of the Vitznau-Rig-Bahn in 1937 was Bhe 2/4 no 1. With a train down to Vitznau he is gliding down below Rigi Kulm, outrunned by the snowmobile of the emerge... (more)

The oldtimer from 1925 with passenger car 33 and a additional car for sledges and skis was put in service too on this beautiful winter day with peak traffic. In the background Lake Lucerne.

Rack steamlocomotive H 2/3 16 with her train slowly gliding down the track between Rigi Staffelhöhe and Kaltbad.

BDhe 4/4 22 from 1986 of the former Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn and BDhe 2/4 7 from 1925 of the former Arth-Rigi-Bahn, below Rigi Kulm, easily outrunned by fast sledge riders.

Rack steamlocomotive H 2/3 16, built by SLM in 1923, is shoving her train to Rigi Kulm.

On a beautiful winter day electric railcar Bhe 2/4 from 1937 is descending slowly from Rigi Kulm towards Vitznau on Lake Lucerne. In the foreground the track of the former Arth-Rigi-Bahn, now merg... (more)