With a long train of 11 cars, Montreal built ex French Railways SNCF 141 R # 1244 of association "Mikado 1244" is storming up the 1.2 % grade from Turgi to Baden, near Ruschebach. The train ran "round the Säntis mountain" from Brugg through the Limmat valley, along Lake of Zürich and the Walensee to Sargans, through the Rhine valley to Lake of Constance and Romanshorn. In the afternoon on the "race track" of the Thur valley via Winterthur-Bülach-Koblenz to Stein-Säckingen, and then with Ae 6/6 # 11407 to Basel.
