After 65 years in service, locomotive Ge 4/4 I 602 "BERNINA" of the RhB goes in retirement, for the next few years in the Swiss Museum of Transport (Verkehrshaus der Schweiz) in Lucerne. The 47-to... (more)

Small roll car for half automatic greasing of the rack rail, which was later coupled with diesel locomotive HGm # 51 and pushed up the line towards Gletsch and the Furka tunnel.

A new TGV for the line POS (Paris direction East towards Strasbourg) made a test run on the Gotthard line. The regular velocity here is 80 km/h, now the train is in service on the new line in Fran... (more)

The two IORE locomotives 109 "Abisko" and 113 "Bergfors" from Bombardier Kassel with a power of 5400 kW each are pulling an empty ore train with 68 cars and about 700 metre length along the Tornet... (more)

East of Glenogle, the Trans Canada Highway cross over the Kicking Horse River and the track of the Canadian Pacific. Since August 2007 the TCH swings high about the canyon over the new 90 m high P... (more)

Locomotive Ge 4/4 I # 602 "Bernina" of the Rhaetian Railway was withdrawn after 65 years in service in the year 2012, and exhibited in the Swiss Museum of Transport (VHS) in Lucerne since april 4t... (more)

Street running over Piazza della Basilica: "Bernina Krokodil" Ge 4/4 182 with passenger cars with a charter special from Pontresina to Tirano.

After a heavy snowstorm in the night and morning, rotary Xrotet 9218 and dual system (diesel/electric) locomotive Gem 4/4 801 cleared the line over the Bernina pass (2253 metre/7391 ft a.s.l.) No... (more)

Still plenty of snow in the riverbed of the Reuss, when "Taurus" locomotive (Siemens ES 64 U2) of Austrian Railways (OeBB) with the Railjet trainset is leaving Wattinger tunnel and crossing lower ... (more)

The classic "Crocodile" locomotive Ce 6/8 II 14253 in traditional brown color was built in 1919 by SLM and MFO for the newly electrified Gotthard route, she was in regular service till 1976, the l... (more)

The AC-12 class 4-8-8-2 "cab forward" # 4294 of the Southern Pacific was built in 1944 as the last of a series of 20 locomotives by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The only survivor of its... (more)

Electric shunter Te III # 147 of the MBC with a Slmmnps-y car, loaded with a M109 self-propelled howitzer of the Swiss Army. This car will be transported to the military training area near Bière ... (more)

Cogwheel double railcars Bhe 4/8 # 3044 and # 3041 of the Gornergratbahn in multiple control are running up the mountain between Riffelalp and Riffelberg, with the mighty Matterhorn as background.... (more)

The "Rhaetian Crocodile" stretches its brown nose out of the 450 metre long Wiesen I tunnel. The bridge over the Brückentobel stream is only 10 metres long and leads directly into the 9... (more)

On 1st june 2016, the world's longest railway tunnel was officialy inaugurated, the 57 kilometer long Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) through the Alps from near Erstfeld in Uri to south of Bodio in Tic... (more)