On the right Ge 4/4 # 81 or "BB 81" of the Blonay-Chamby Railroad Museum at Chaulin museum. The locomotive was built as Ge 6/6 # 81 for the Bernina Railway in 1916 by SLM and BBC and was then the most powerful one meter gauge locomotive of Europe. It had two powered three axles bogies with rod drives. After some problems, in 1929 the drive was rebuilt, the middle axles of the bogies were removed, the 4 electromotors with 960 HP in total now driving two 2-axles-bogies via a jackshaft. Between the two bogies, there is a subframe on small wheels carrying the electro-magnetic rail brakes. In 1943, the Bernina Railway was taken over by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). The locomotive was renumbered in 1961 to # 181 of the Rhaetian Railway, was decommissioned in 1965 and came to the Blonay-Chamby Railroad Museum in 1970, operational for a few years only. Since 2008 there were works for the rebuilding of this impressive vehicle and it is now operational again since a few days. The day before there was the official inauguration and the vehicle is decorated with flowers. On the left is heavy sixaxle railcar FZe 6/6 # 2002 from the MOB (Montreux Oberland Bernois), with baggage and mail compartment, built in 1932 by SIG and BBC and running for the BC since 2008.
