After a large photo session, photographers, filmers and contemporary clothed background actors are boarding the freight only steamtrain of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) above the Steinstaf... (more)

The 0-8-0 T cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke, built in 1923 by the SLM for Indochina (today Vietnam) and brought back to Switzerland in 1990, is pulling a p... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke is crossing the Steinstafel viaduct between Tiefenbach and Furka DFB with a train from Realp to Gletsch.

Dog "Ludwig" from Berlin/Germany enjoys the Steinstafel alp in the Swiss mountains, while a steamtrain of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke with cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 9 is cros... (more)

For the re-enactment of the time of the Furka-Oberalp Railway around the years 1930/1940, a larger number of contemporary dressed and equipped passengers could be won. In Tiefenbach they lined up ... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotives HG 3/4 # 4 (1913) and # 9 (1914) of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke, built for the Brig-Furka-Disentis-Bahn (BFD), since 1926 running for the successor Furka-Oberalp-Bahn... (more)

On the run down the mountain from Furka to Tiefenbach on a grade of 11.0 %, the steamtrain of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke with HG 3/4 # 4 is passing this impressive rock near the Sidelenbach.

Re-enactment scene in Muttbach-Belvédère station of the Furka moutain line, with two trains pulled by cogwheel steamlocomotives HG 3/4 # 4 and # 9, during a P.M. photo event.

Cogwheel steam locomotive HG 4/4 #704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke, originally built in 1923 for French Indochina (today's Vietnam) is crossing the Steinstafel viaduct with a freight train. ... (more)

Two trains pulled by cogwheel steam locomotives HG 3/4 #4 and HG 3/4 #9 are awaiting departure clearance at Gletsch station on the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke.

Boarding a mixed freight and passenger train pulled by cogwheel steam locomotive HG 3/4 #4 of the Furka Oberalp Bahn at Tiefenbach. A reenactment scene during a P. Minder photo charter.

Around 1930 a group of passengers is waiting in Furka station for the train of the Furka-Oberalp-Bahn for the journey to Andermatt. A P.M. photo event.

As far as is known, there were hardly any freight-only trains on the Brig-Furka-Disentis Railway (BFD) and its successor, the Furka-Oberalp Railway (FO, from 1926). In most cases, some freight car... (more)

On the Furka, the cattle and the steam train share the territory. However, the animals prefer to look for their own food and do not accept anything from the passengers.

Retired engineer and fireman of the DFB, Georg S. (left) talking with his son Oli S., engineer and responsible of the cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 9 in Gletsch station.