The 0-4-2 T Cogwheel locomotive HG 2/3 # 6 "Weisshorn", which was built in 1902 by the SLM Winterthur for the Visp-Zermatt Railway, is shunting a freighttrain in Gletsch. This was the very first (... (more)

Night is falling in Gletsch, some locals came for a chat to the station.

The second half of the ascent from Oberwald to Gletsch of the Furka mountain line, the track is running on the (right) slope of the Rotten gorge mainly with a incline of 11.0 % with the Abt cogwhe... (more)

Steamtrain of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke with cogwheel locomotive HG 3/4 # 4 from 1913 is leaving Muttbach-Bélvedère station to enter the Furka summit tunnel, with the 3166 meter high Vorde... (more)

"It's time to say goodbye"-scene in Gletsch, when a steamtrain with HG 4/4 # 704 is leaving for the Furka pass and Realp, while HG 2/3 # 6 "Weisshorn" is waiting with a freight... (more)

A beautiful contemporary freighttrain is leaving Gletsch for the Furka pass, running over the level crossing of the Furka pass road beside the Blauhaus. Pulling is the 0-4-2 T HG 2/3 # 6 "Wei... (more)

"Full house" in Gletsch station of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) with 3 steamtrains. On track 1 a train towards the Furka pass and Realp with the 0-8-0 T HG 4/4 # 704, which was ... (more)

"Highball" from the station master with the green/white signaling disc for the steamtrain to Oberwald with cogwheel locomotive HG 3/4 # 4, which was built in 1913 by the SLM Winterthur f... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704, built in 1923 by SLM Winterthur for Indochina/Vietnam, is pulling a train on the 11.0 % grade over the Rotten bridge and entering the Gletsch spiral tunnel s... (more)

The cogwheel steam locomotive #4 is hauling a Peter Minder steam charter between Gletsch and Oberwald. The same picture could have been taken some 90 years ago.

A steamtrain of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke is tackling the 11.0 % grade above the spiral tunnel towards Gletsch station, with the Galenstock in the background. Pulling is the 800 hp HG 4/4 # ... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke with a photo charter train above the Gletsch spiral tunnel.

The making of....about half of the photographers/videographers are visible here. 3 days on the Furka Mountain steam railway with up to 3 trains.

The cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 2/3 # 6 "Weisshorn" from 1902 is leaving the Gletsch spiral tunnel with a photo freight train.

Turning the cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 in front of the "Blauhaus" in Gletsch. The "Blauhaus" (blue house) was a branch building of the famous Hotel Glacier du Rhone.... (more)