On the second day of the celebration for the anniversary of 150 years railway Neuchâtel-Pontarlier, C 5/6 2978 pulled a 4 car train from Neuchâtel up to Travers and St-Sulpice. The train is just... (more)

Four-cylinder compound 2-10-0 No 2962 awaits a call that may never come while on standby duty at Basel SBB depot.

Four-cylinder compound 2-10-0 No 2958 is on standby duty at Olten depot in 1964. There were 28 of these locomotives built by SLM in 1913-17 numbered 2951-78. Known as 'Elephants' No 2978 was the l... (more)

The conductor (in Switzerland: Zugführer) in a historic uniform is just handing trainorders to the engineer of steamlocomotive C 5/6 for the return trip to Neuchâtel-Biel-Delémont.

When the railway from Pontarlier to Neuchâtel was built (inaugurated 1860) it was intended to be an important international line from Paris to the Orient...so the roadbed was prepared for two tr... (more)

With 4 passenger cars (about 160 tons) on the drawbar the "Elefant" is storming up the Areuse gorge (2.1 % grade). The train to Fleurier in the Travers valley is just leaving the 55 m short La Log... (more)

2-10-0 Gotthard freight steamlocomotive called "Elefant" is just starting in the 2.5 % grade from Sonceboz up to the Pierre Pertuis in the Jura mountains. The train comes from Fleurier in the Trav... (more)

"Elephant" 2978 (2-10-0, 4-Cylinder Compound, built 1917 by SLM Winterthur) is celebrating 125 years of the Gotthard line through the Alps with a public special, below Gurtnellen on the northern a... (more)

Special train during the 125 years celebration of the Gotthard Line