The Wengernalpbahn (WAB) and the Schynige Platte Bahn (SPB) in the Bernese Oberland can celebrate 125 years in service this year. So they celebrate 250 years of cogwheel mountain railways in the region. This day, the oldest operational locomotive of the Wengernalpbahn, He 2/2 # 51 from 1908 (built by SLM and Alioth/Münchenstein) together with cars # 3 (von Roll 1893) and # 7 (SIG 1924) of the Schynige Platte Bahn was on the Kleine Scheidegg for a media meeting.
The Schynige Platte Bahn has no winter service. The train is below Kleine Scheidegg on the way down to Grindelwald, with 3692 meter high Wetterhorn in the background.
