2-8-2 "Mikado" 141 R # 1244 of association Mikado 1244 is pulling a 9 car steamtrain from Brugg AG via Olten-Berne-Lausanne-Yverdon-les-Bains-Biel-Olten back to Brugg AG. In pouring rain... (more)

A Mikado 1244 steam charter around the Zürich Lake leaves Wädenswill after allowing several passenger trains to pass the station.

Clean, colorful and shiny like it never was in regular service, the 141R 1244 looks like a Märklin toy as it leaves Kloten on a charter tour around the Zurich Lake.

Coming from Wettingen, the 141-R-1244 is going to Wettingen by Koblenz, Eglisau Bülach, Zürich-Oerlikon and Dietikon. And it will follow the same itinerary one more time on the same day, in the af... (more)

Old meets less old

A charter train of the Mikado 1244 association coming back from Zurich after the train did a steam tour around the Zurich Lake has the preserved Ae6/6 11407 buil... (more)

Legendary engineer Sigi Liechti on the throttle of the 3000 horsepower 2-8-2 "Mikado" 141 R # 1244 on the trip from Brugg AG via Berne to Lausanne, near Fribourg. The heavy fuel oil fired, canadia... (more)

A Mikado 1244 charter hauled by American-built, oil-fired, ex-SNCF 141-R-1244 cruises along the Zurich lake. The train itinerary was Zurich Hbf - Pfäffikon (SZ) - Rapperswil - Pfäffikon (ZH) - Klo... (more)

As there is no mainline live steam these days in France, I went to Switzerland to see some big French steam (although this oil-fired loco was built in Canada by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1946).... (more)

The 2-8-2 "Mikado" 141 R # 1244 (heavy fuel oil fired) pulled a 6-car train round the Lake of Zürich, from Zürich via Thalwil-Wädenswil-Pfäffikon SZ-Rapperswil-Wetzikon-Pfäffikon ZH-Effretikon-Klo... (more)

First trip in the year 2020 of the heavy fuel oil fired 2-8-2 "Mikado" 141 R # 1244 of the association Mikado 1244 in Brugg AG. Round trip round the Lägern mountain from Wettingen via Tu... (more)

First trip in the year 2020 of the heavy fuel oil fired 2-8-2 "Mikado" 141 R # 1244 of the association Mikado 1244 in Brugg AG. Round trip round the Lägern mountain from Wettingen via Tu... (more)

First trip in the year 2020 of the heavy fuel oil fired 2-8-2 "Mikado" 141 R # 1244 of the association Mikado 1244 in Brugg AG. Round trip round the Lägern mountain from Wettingen via Tu... (more)