What a fantastic engineering achievement: the Interregio could be observed three times on the mountain slope at different heights. Two spiral tunnels made it possible to negotiate the steep terrai... (more)

The train Z 27947 belongs to the series of Z 27500 trains and is as regional express train in the Grand Est area in France (TER GRAND EST) in service.

Passenger trains hauled by Re 4/4 are now a rarity. Like many other railway companies, SBB is increasingly relying on railcars.

This Re 6/6 certainly didn't have to exert itself too much before the unusually short train.

Regular use of the ICE 1 trains in Switzerland has been history since December. Instead, newer ICE 4 trains are used.

In 2014 Re 460 105-0 advertised the "Association of Swiss Locomotive Drivers and Candidates". The particularly attractive advertising was a real eye-catcher for many.

Some of the locomotives of the class 145 are already over twenty years old. Here 145 072-5 was on the way on track 4413, with which the Haltingen shop was bypassed westwards. Trains no longer run ... (more)

A total of four ICE trains of the 406 series went to the Dutch State Railways. With them and the identical DB trains, continuous traffic between the Amsterdam Centraal and Basel SBB stations is po... (more)

The XTmas train 99 85 917 4 002-7 is a state-of-the-art fire fighting and rescue train operated by SBB. Throughout Switzerland there are 16 of these trains + one reserve. Every point on the standa... (more)

The RABe takes you from Basel to Zuerich Airport at express speed. The RABe 511 comes from Stadler and belongs to the KISS product range. KISS stands for "Komfortabler innovativer spurtstarke... (more)

There was a fantastic opportunity to photograph trains from the former western platform in Haltingen. This, as well as the turnout to the bypass of the Haltingen shop, are history today. The Rolli... (more)

At Vossloh in D-Kiel the Am 843 was built for the SBB. The locomotives with their microparticle filters belong to the cleanest diesel locomotives. At the beginning of 2014, Am 843 018-3 was in use... (more)

ES 64 U2-067 will soon have reached Basel with its CityNightLine night train. The locomotive is one of the Siemens locomotives that have been equipped with a Balkan package. The slogan "Bospo... (more)

Here 185 515-4 rushed through the now demolished Haltingen train station. At the time, the locomotive was leased by RAILTRAXX BVBA from Borgerhout in Belgium.

145-CL 005 was one of the first locomotives from private railway companies to appear here on the Rhine Valley route. The inscription Rail4Chem can still be read faintly on the side. In 2013 the lo... (more)