Re 460 020 "SRG SSR Idée Suisse" with the EC Cisalpino SAN MARCO Basel-Milan-Venice is passing through the 88 meter long Mühle tunnel near Wassen on the northern ascent to the Gotthard tunnel.

New tilt train ETR 610 for Cisalpino on test run on the Gotthard line. With about 100 km p.h. he is rounding the curve instead of 80 of regular passenger trains. Alstom/Savigliano is building 14 o... (more)

Re 460 114 in a special paint scheme for the "SECURITRANS" (Public transport security) pulls the "Scool train" (special cars for education about trains) on the lower level of the famous line devel... (more)

Privately owned Ae 4/7 10997 from 1933, based at Mendrisio, can often be seen runing over the Gotthard line. Here she is passing the famous church of Wassen, wrapped in red for some days for the c... (more)

Pair of DB 185s heading up the mountain at Wassen with a south bound Intermodal

Re 4/4 ii 11201 with a south bound IR, Wassen

In 2004 TXLogistik (today owned to 51 % by Trenitalia) was a new competitor in north-south traffic Germany-Italy. Two leased "Taurus" locomotives (ES 64 U2) of Siemens Dispolok are pulling a poorl... (more)

BLS Cargo and SBB Cargo are business rival in the north-south traffic through Switzerland, but here they are combined with a test train on the Gotthard line, including measuring cars from Deutsche... (more)

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)

Classic location, classic power of SBB Cargo on the Gotthard line (assembling 17000 HP), but the famous church of Wassen wrapped in red could only seen a few days in septembre 2007 as an eye-catch... (more)

"Crocodile" 14253 leaves the Wattinger loop tunnel and crosses the river Reuss with a charter for film purposes ("My Name is Eugene"), near Wassen. This type, built from 1919, was the standard fre... (more)

01 202 and 01 1066 with a special train for 125 jears Gotthardbahn.

Re 6/6 11644 "Cornaux" and Re 6/6 11651 "Dornach-Arlesheim" are leaving the upper helical tunnel in Wassen (Leggistein-Tunnel)

Re 4/4 III 11363 with Re 620 068