Welcome to the good room, it is heated. Joking aside, we are on the stoker stand of a steam vehicle, the steam snowplow R # 12 (or Xrot d # 9212), built in 1913 by the SLM for the RhB for the main... (more)

In the cab of 4 cylinder compound cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the DFB, built in 1923 by the SLM Winterthur. Perfectly renovated by the group Uzwil of the DFB and masterpiece of Jakob ... (more)

Snow fighting in the gorge of the Furkareuss above the Wiler bridge on a grade of 11.0 % on the line of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke. The former Rhaetian Railway snow blower R 12 (Xrot d # 9212... (more)

Diesellocomotive Gm 4/4 # 71 "Elch" of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) is shunting cars in front of the new car shed in Realp DFB. The locomotive was built in 1966 by Jung/Germany ... (more)

Snow blowing test with the "Rotary" R 12 (Xrot d # 9212 former Rhaetian Railway, built in 1913) and cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 from 1923 above the Wiler bridge between Realp a... (more)

Front cab of the "Rotary" steam snow blower R # 12, built by the SLM in 1913 for the Rhaetian Railway, main network (Xrot d # 9212). This not self propelled vehicle, but with an auxiliary small st... (more)

Hard snow fighting with rotary steam snow blower R 12, shoved by cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704, above the Wiler bridge.

Steam snow blower R # 12 and cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) on the 46 meter long Wiler bridge, built in 1955, with a grade of 11.0 %.

Crew of the steam snow blower action on the line of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke/steam railway Furka mountain line (DFB) above the Wiler bridge. From left: Martin Horath, head and initiator of ... (more)

Masterpiece from the SLM Winterthur. The cogwheel steamlocomotives of type HG 4/4 were procured in nine copies from 1923 onwards by the French colonial administration for use on the rack railroad ... (more)

Rotary steam snow blower brake testrun of R # 12 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (former Xrot d # 9212 of the Rhaetian Railway, built 1913), shoved by cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704, on ... (more)

Rotary steam snow blower testrun of R # 12 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (former Xrot d # 9212 of the Rhaetian Railway, built 1913), shoved by cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704, above the... (more)

Rotary steam snow blower testrun of R # 12 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (former Xrot d # 9212 of the Rhaetian Railway, built 1913), shoved by cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704, above the... (more)

Rotary steam snow blower testrun of R # 12 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (former Xrot d # 9212 of the Rhaetian Railway, built 1913), shoved by cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704, above the... (more)

Very first trial of the steam rotary snow blower R # 12 in the gorge of the Furkareuss near Realp, after a 18 year restoration by the "R 12 group" of Martin Horath in Goldau. Shoving is ... (more)