Two classic Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn cogwheel railcars side by side in Vitznau. On this beautiful spring day the Rigi mountain was the destination of very many excursionists. Thus, in the afternoon after... (more)

Cogwheel railcar BDhe 4/4 # 5 (built 1964) of the Rigi Bahnen, with cars B # 1 of 1871 and B # 16 of 1925 is reaching Vitznau, running more or less empty down from Rigi Kulm as first train CC 1110... (more)

As first train CC 239 from Arth Goldau to Rigi Kulm, the push-pull train with leading cab car Bt # 23 and cogwheel railcar BDhe 2/4 # 13 of the Rigi Bahnen on the way between Rigi Staffel and Rigi... (more)

Train CC 1145 of the Rigi Bahnen from Vitznau to Rigi Kulm is running up the 25.0 % grade below Freibergen, with the typical rocks (slightly red colored conglomerate) of the Rigi mountain in the b... (more)

Cogwheel railcar BDhe 4/4 # 21 of the Rigi Bahnen reached Vitznau as second train CC 1146b. Now the railcar, together with cab car Bt # 31, is running from the station track 1 over the curved trac... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler H 1/2 # 7 out of the collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport Lucerne (VHS) is running on the tracks of the Rigi Bahnen this year for the celebratio... (more)

A blue/white train in Vitznau is not usual. The cogwheel trains of the former Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB) are not allowed to run on the steeper (25.0 % instead of 20.0 %) grades of the former Vitznau-Rig... (more)

When the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn (VRB) was electrified with 1500 V DC in 1937, there were ordered from SLM and BBC 3 electric railcars of type Bhe 2/4 with 72 seats and 450 horsepower. Maximum velocity ... (more)

148 years old cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler, H 1/2 # 7 out of the collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport Lucerne, loaned to the Rigi Bahnen for the 150 years anniversary, is ru... (more)

148 years old cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler, H 1/2 # 7 out of the collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport Lucerne, loaned to the Rigi Bahnen for the 150 years anniversary, is sl... (more)

148 years old cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler, H 1/2 # 7 out of the collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport Lucerne, loaned to the Rigi Bahnen for the 150 years anniversary, is le... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 1/2 # 7, built in 1873 by the SLM Winterthur for the Rigi-Bahn, part of the collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport Lucerne since 1959, running on the Rigi near Staf... (more)

Steamtrain of the Rigi Bahnen is running down to Arth Goldau below Rigi Staffel, with cogwheel locomotive H 2/3 # 17 from 1925, car B # 32 (built in 1875, rebuilt 1998) and B # 33 (built 1875, reb... (more)

Cogwheel railcar BDhe 2/4 # 7 of the Rigi Bahnen was built in 1925 by SLM and MFO for the Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB). In 1939 converted from 750 V DC to 1500 V DC from the overhead wire. Revised in 2018... (more)

Freight traffic is also important for the mountain railroad on the Rigi. There is no road leading up the mountain, all material for the supply of the hotels and restaurants, building material, con... (more)