The Blonay-Chamby Railroad/Museum is celebrating the 50th anniversary in 2018. Part of the celebrations are 5 guest steamlocomotives. This is the smallest of the guests, the tiny 0-4-0 construction works locomotive "Ticino", built in 1889 by Arnold Jung at Jungenthal/Germany and delivered via F.Marti company at Winterthur to the "Consorzio Correzione del Fiume Ticino" in Bellinzona. Used till 1941, then stabled and forgotten somewhere in the Magadino plain. But Mr. Guido Travaini from Mendrisio had had his eye on her for a long time and he was able to get her "transported home" to him in 1961. He then constructed a parking space in a basement and there the locomotive survived for decades, dry and well maintained. After the death of Mr. Travaini, his family made it possible for the locomotive to be loaned to steam expert Martin Horath in Goldau, who revised it together with colleagues within a good three months from June 2016 and put it back into operation. Now the "Ticino" is guest on the Blonay-Chamby, here shunting in Chaulin museum. A special buffer had to be constructed, to couple it with the other larger locomotives.
