Cogwheel steam locomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke is moving from the train 154 to the turntable in Furka DFB station on 2160 meter a.s.l. Two days before, a cold spell brou... (more)

Last day of the 2020 season on the Furka mountain line. The very last passenger train 154 from Oberwald to Realp stopped in Gletsch and the locomotive is taking water. The heavy 0-8-0 T cogwheel s... (more)

Last day of the 2020 season on the Furka mountain line. The heavy 0-8-0 T cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704, built by SLM Winterthur in 1923 for the Chemins de fer de l'Indochine (Indochina ra... (more)

Last day of the 2020 season on the Furka mountain line. The heavy 0-8-0 T cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704, built by SLM Winterthur in 1923 for the Chemins de fer de l'Indochine (Indochina ra... (more)

Last day of the 2020 season on the Furka mountain line. Steamtrain 133 from Realp to Oberwald is near destination. The heavy 0-8-0 T cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704, built by SLM Winterthur ... (more)

Very last passenger train of the 2020 season, steamtrain 154 from Oberwald over the Furka pass to Realp, on the 11.0 % grade between Gletsch and Muttbach-Belvédère. The heavy 0-8-0 T cogwheel st... (more)

On the last day of the 2020 season, steamtrain 133 from Realp over the Furka pass to Gletsch and Oberwald is tackling the 11.0 % grade towards the Wiler viaduct near Realp. Pulling is the heavy 0-... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 (SLM 1923) is turned on Furka DFB station by the fireman and the conductor. The locomotive, which was built for the french colony Indochina (Vietnam) was brou... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke in Furka DFB station. The locomotive pulled the first train of the day, the "hiker train" or "diesel train&q... (more)

The first train of the day on the Furka mountain line is # 325 from Realp to Oberwald, pulled usually by diesellocomotive HGm 4/4 # 61, rented from the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn. But this day, the ... (more)

The first train of the day on the Furka mountain line is # 325 from Realp to Oberwald, pulled usually by diesellocomotive HGm 4/4 # 61, rented from the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn. But this day, the ... (more)

A loaded grain train from Tailem Bend rolls through Keswick behind the all Alco combination of 704-841-702-705-961.

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 pulls forward from the shed to the coal loading place. The locomotive recently got new little smaller, hand-painted inscriptions "DFB" and "704... (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)

View to the station Gletsch of the DFB on 1762 meter a.s.l. during the jubilee event, with the Rotten river, famous Hotel Glacier du Rhône (left) and "Blauhaus" (blue house, right). In ... (more)