40 seconds after passing under the viaduct near Brusio, BERNINA EXPRESS 960 Tirano-Davos with Allegra trainset ABe 8/12 3505 "Giovanni Segantini" and 6 panorama coaches is completing the spiral. I... (more)

Electric railcars ABe 4/4 # 47 and 46, built in 1965/1972 and not in regular passenger service anymore, are waiting at 8.30 PM with 3 panoramic cars on track 2 of Alp Grüm station on 2091 m a.s.l... (more)

In the "blue hour" at 6.48 AM the snow fighting crew from Poschiavo is reaching Alp Grüm on 2091 meter a.s.l. Snowblower X rot mt 95404 is shoved by dual power (diesel and electric 1000 V DC) loc... (more)

This day, there was organized a large "parade" of 11 vintage trains between Rigi Staffel and Rigi Kulm, to celebrate the 150 years anniversary of the Rigi Bahnen, or more precisely the first cogwh... (more)

Night fall down in the upper Valais. Our view is from the newly (in September of this year) opened section of the hiking trail " Lötschberg Südrampe " between Lalden and Brig, about 200 meters a... (more)

What the hell is the man doing with his locomotive? What looks like a little steam engine, produces the same noises including the whistle with the help of loudspeakers and let escape some steam fr... (more)

On the second day of the first Swiss Classic Train (SCT) journey Ae 6/8 205 of the BLS is pulling the train over the Luogelkin viaduct near Hohtenn on the southern ramp to the Lötschberg tunnel.

"Allegra" trainset ABe 8/12 3501 "Jan Willem Holsboer" with train 1640 from Tirano to St.Moritz along Lago Bianco (white lake) with Piz Cambrena (3602 meter a.s.l.) and Cambrena glacier.

For my 4500th contribution on Railpictures I choose this "moonlight special" as a tribute to the Gotthard mountain line, with the famous loops around Wassen. In a double longtime exposur... (more)

At dusk two steamtrains of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) are ready for departure from Gletsch to the Furka pass (arranged scene). On the left cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 2/3 # 6 "Weisshorn... (more)

On the Swiss National Day, 1st of august, the 75 year old double red arrow "Churchill Pfeil" RAe 4/8 # 1021 made a interesting trip on the Gotthard line in search of the myth of the Gotthard, cent... (more)

Special train of the RhB for GdI (Society of Engineers of public transport) is crossing the spiral viaduct between Brusio and Campocologno. On the rear of the train a open top view car. The big da... (more)

On an mild early spring day with a good view to the alps and Lake of Zurich, Inter Regio 2356 from Lucerne to Zurich Airport is leaving Zurich main station over the curved bridge towards Oerlikon.... (more)

Today in the "Au harbor" of Muttenz near Basel, the first six cars of the first doubledeck trainset for Aeroexpress (Moscow), built by Stadler Rail in Altenrhein/Switzerland, were loaded to the Rh... (more)

Controls and instruments on the footplate of the steam locomotive B 3/4 # 1367 of SBB Historic in Airolo. Electrolocomotive Ae 6/6 # 11411 "Zug" is coupled in front, to pull the steamer ... (more)