Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke in Furka DFB station. The locomotive pulled the first train of the day, the "hiker train" or "diesel train&q... (more)

The first train of the day on the Furka mountain line is # 325 from Realp to Oberwald, pulled usually by diesellocomotive HGm 4/4 # 61, rented from the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn. But this day, the ... (more)

The first train of the day on the Furka mountain line is # 325 from Realp to Oberwald, pulled usually by diesellocomotive HGm 4/4 # 61, rented from the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn. But this day, the ... (more)

A loaded grain train from Tailem Bend rolls through Keswick behind the all Alco combination of 704-841-702-705-961.

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 pulls forward from the shed to the coal loading place. The locomotive recently got new little smaller, hand-painted inscriptions "DFB" and "704... (more)

Masterpiece from the SLM Winterthur. The cogwheel steamlocomotives of type HG 4/4 were procured in nine copies from 1923 onwards by the French colonial administration for use on the rack railroad ... (more)

View to the station Gletsch of the DFB on 1762 meter a.s.l. during the jubilee event, with the Rotten river, famous Hotel Glacier du Rhône (left) and "Blauhaus" (blue house, right). In ... (more)

The masterpiece of the SLM (Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works) Winterthur (in 1923) and the many volunteers of the Chur and Uzwil workshop of the DFB (from 2006 to 2018), the four-cylinder compou... (more)

For the jubilee event in Gletsch, celebrating 30 years since the expedition "Back to Switzerland" to Vietnam, 20 years since the re-opening of the line from Realp to Gletsch and 10 years... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke is shunting in Furka DFB station near the Furka summit tunnel, to be turned on the turntable for the run down to Realp.

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the DFB is leaving Gletsch for Oberwald with a special train during the jubilee event. On track 2 is steamtrain 154 from Oberwald to Realp with HG 3/4 # 4 ... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke gets fresh excellent welsh coal in Gletsch, by the engineer M.H. (right) and the fireman T.H. In the background is oilfired... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 on the turntable of Furka DFB station on 2163 meter a.s.l., on the occasion of an extra train.

On the occasion of the jubilee event in Gletsch, celebrating 30 years since the back to Switzerland action, 20 years since re-opening of the line Realp to Gletsch and 10 years since the re-opening... (more)

In front of the Vorder Gärstenhorn (3166 meter a.s.l.), the most powerful 1 meter gauge cogwheel steamlocomotive of Europe (800 Hp) is pulling train 154 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) f... (more)