More then 11 years ago, the cogwheel steamlocomotive H 1/2 # 7 of the Rigibahnen was operational already, before it went back to the Swiss museum of transport. The locomotive is standing on the tr... (more)

In 2021, the Rigibahnen (more precisely the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn VRB) will celebrate 150 years of operation. The VRB was the first cogwheel mountain railway in Europe, built by Niklaus Riggenbach. To... (more)

Rigibahnen trailer 23 leads BDhe2/4 13 departing Arth Goldau station for Rigi Kulm on Sunday 21st September 2019.

The locomotives, known as "crocodiles" because of their special shape, are 100 years old this year. For example the brown locomotive Ce 6/8 II # 14253 of SBB Historic, which is based in Erstfeld, ... (more)

Re 446 # 018 of the SOB, with publicity paint scheme for "Akademie St.Gallen", is pulling Voralpenexpress 2567 from Lucerne to St.Gallen, between Steinerberg and Sattel-Aegeri. The locomotive was ... (more)

Fresh from revision (Be R3 13.06.2018) and new in the SBB Cargo red/blue paint scheme, the Re 620 # 068 "Stein-Säckingen" is pulling freight 60510 from Bellinzona San Paolo to Basel SBB shunting y... (more)

Standard gauge cogwheel 0-4-0 steamlocomotive "Caspar Honegger", built in 1877 by Engineer Niklaus Riggenbach in the machine works Aarau for the textile works of Caspar Honegger in Rüti ... (more)

Privately owned 0-4-0 cogwheel steamlocomotive "Caspar Honegger" from 1877 and electric cogwheel railcar BCFhe 2/3 # 6 of the Rigibahnen from 1911 on Rigi Staffel. The steamlocomotive ha... (more)

Electric cogwheel railcar BDhe 2/4 # 7 of the Rigibahnen (former Arth-Rigi-Bahn ARB) from 1925 on Rigi Staffel.

Worldwide the oldest operational cogwheel railcar BCFhe 2/3 # 6 of the Rigibahnen, former Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB), built in 1911, in the blue hour in Arth Goldau.

Standard gauge cogwheel 0-4-0 steamlocomotive "Caspar Honegger", built in 1877 by Engineer Niklaus Riggenbach in the machine works Aarau for the textile works of Caspar Honegger in Rüti ... (more)

Standard gauge cogwheel 0-4-0 steamlocomotive "Caspar Honegger", built in 1877 by Engineer Niklaus Riggenbach in the machine works Aarau for the textile works of Caspar Honegger in Rüti (ZH). The ... (more)

This is the world's oldest operational cogwheel railcar, BCFhe 2/3 # 6 of the Rigibahnen. Built in 1911 by SLM/SWS/MFO for the Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB), beautifully restored by the skilled people of t... (more)

What are they doing here? Manualy turning (180 degree) of the carbody of electric cogwheel locomotive with rotary snow blower, He 2/3 # 8 of the Rigibahnen, former Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB), built by S... (more)

Meeting of two rather different cogwheel steamlocomotives on the traverser of the Rigibahnen shed in Arth Goldau. On the left is "Caspar Honegger", built in 1877 by the Aargauer Maschine... (more)