100 years before, the swiss engineer Jakob Buchli invented the "Buchli drive", a transmission system used in electric locomotives. The drive is a fully spring-loaded drive, in which each... (more)

SBB Ae 3/6 I No 10656 has arrived at Zurich Hbf with the 14.49 local train from Rapperswil. This design was already 44 years old when this photo was taken and some were to last another 30 years.

Ae 3/6 I # 10664 of SBB Historic, based in Rapperswil, with a birthday party train with Railvetica cars AB # 4126 and B # 8112, leaving Ziegelbrücke, while a Intercity of the SBB is running towar... (more)

Electric 1560 kW locomotive Ae 3/6 I # 10664 with Buchli single axle drive (the axle drives are on the opposite side of the locomotive), built in 1925 by SLM Winterthur and BBC Baden for mixed ser... (more)

Electric 1560 kW locomotive Ae 3/6 I # 10664 with Buchli single axle drive, built in 1925 by SLM Winterthur and BBC Baden for mixed service. They pulled light freights, local and even express trai... (more)

Electric locomotive Ae 3/6 I # 10664 with Buchli single axle drive, built in 1925 by SLM Winterthur and BBC Baden for mixed service. They pulled light freights, local and even express trains, with... (more)

Birthday party train from Rapperswil to Linthal, via Pfäffikon SZ and Ziegelbrücke, between Rüti (GL) and Linthal. Ae 3/6 I # 10664 of SBB Historic, built in 1925 by SLM and BBC, is pulling two... (more)

Locomotive Ae 3/6 I-110 # 10700 of SBB Historic at St-Maurice. Built in 1927 by SLM and MFO with 1560 kW and the typical Buchli single axle drive. Since 1937 capable for running 110 km/h and histo... (more)

Ae 3/6 I-110 # 10700 was built in 1927 by SLM and MFO with 1560 kW and the typical Buchli single axle drive. Since 1937 capable for running 110 km/h and historic locomotive since 1986. Now standin... (more)

Privately owned former SBB passenger train electrolocomotive Ae 3/6 I-110 # 10693, built by SLM and MFO in 1927 with the typical Buchli drive and 1600 kW, withdrawn in 1984. This is one of the se... (more)

SBB Ae 3/6 I 4-6-2 electric loco No 10602 built in 1924 approaches Romanshorn station with an eastbound tank wagon train from the Kreuzlingen direction.

Ae 3/6 I 10700 (2-6-4) was built in 1927 by SLM and MFO with a power of 1560 kW and a velocity of 110 k.p.h. Historic locomotive since 1986 and in the original brown color, she is rotated on the ... (more)

Ae 3/6 I 4-6-2 electric No 10633 shunts a local westbound freight train at Arbon. In the background is the Saurer factory where many of the well known Swiss post busses and other commercial vehicl... (more)

Veteran Swiss 4-6-2 electric No 10646 heads the 16.26 Schaffhausen to Rorschach train. The Untersee through which the River Rhein flows from the Bodensee (Lake Constance) can be seen in the backgr... (more)

Swiss Federal Railway 4-6-2 electric loco No 10647 waits to leave Luzern Haupt Bahnhof with a train for Zurich. This design of loco first appeared in 1921. Photo by the late C.R.L. Coles.