The Valais valley is know for its wines - but also for its spectacular shape. A deep cut in the mountains - made by the once big Rhone glacier. On the bottom the simplon mainline is running throug... (more)

The mystic Matterhorn was on this day even more mystic with this all the time wafting clouds around the peak. Two of the newest Bhe4/6 type EMU are descending to Zermatt while the other two are ju... (more)

One of Switzerland's classic shots - a train in front of the Château de Chillon (Castle Chillon). Here in the early morning hours the Re 6/6 11609 is pulling a long grain train along the Lac Léman... (more)

70 years old and still running..... Delievered as Deh 4/6 910 in 1942, in 1993 the cog wheel was removed and the loco was renumbered into De110 003-1. Here the loco is pulling a regional train ... (more)

Today you have to get luck to take a picture of a so called "Knie-Zug". The "Knie" is the biggest national circus in Switzerland and he is still moving his material between two shows by rail to th... (more)

Fresh snow is always a pleasure to deal with. Here two Re485 from the BLS Lötschbergbahn are hauling a steel train through the old stopping point of Kumm. In the background the lake Thun is visib... (more)

Street running in Switzerland is not really common any more, but some lines still do it like the Aigle - Ollon - Monthey - Champéry line of the TPC. The BDe 4/4 102 with pilot Bt 134 is running ... (more)

Next stop: Pilatus. While the left EMU has just hit the first switch point of the Pilatus station, the right one (Bhe1/2 29 with [unfortunately] an advertisment paint scheme) has to do some more c... (more)

Today many of the trains across the Bernina Pass are driven by the new EMU ABe 8/12 - the so called "Allegra". here one of these trains could be seen on the Alp Bondi.

At the end of the artifical "Lac du Vernex" the MOB is crossing the river "Saane" on a girder bridge. This composition is running with the ABDe 8/8 4002 built in the late 1960ies is corssing this ... (more)

The 1092m (3,583 ft) long Lorraineviadukt - built in 1941 - is the main entry point for the railway lines to the swiss capitals railway station. The 4 tracks belong to the busiest tracks in Switze... (more)

A STAR (Schmalspur Triebzug für Attraktiven Regionalverkehr - narrow gauge EMU for an attractive regional traffic) is born. The unit 111 "Merkur" is running in front of the old abbey St.Urban towa... (more)

Get away from the thunderstorm..... It was still sunny when this regional train has had his run by at my point, but two minutes later I was soaked due to hard rainfall. The RBDe 566I trainsets ... (more)

The Metro m2 in Lausanne was opened in 2008. It replaces the acient rack railway from Ouchy to Flon and adds a further 4.4km to it. The new system is a fully automatic, Rubber-tyred metro. Most of... (more)

On a cold winter morning the RBDe 560 216 is passing the church of Les Eplatures between La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle.