The engineers of the SBB Historic steam locomotive C 5/6 # 2978 (built in 1917) are happy that the locomotive is back in Switzerland after a stay of more than 15 months at the steam locomotive wor... (more)

Fourcylinder compound 2-10-0 Gotthard freight train locomotive C 5/6 # 2978 of SBB Historic is reaching Switzerland in Kreuzlingen after a 15 months stay in the steamlocomotive works Meiningen/Ger... (more)

Fourcylinder compound 2-10-0 freight train steamlocomotive C 5/6 # 2978 of SBB Historic returned to Switzerland after a 15 months overhaul in the Meiningen steamlocomotive work in Germany. The loc... (more)

Fourcylinder compound 2-10-0 freight train steamlocomotive C 5/6 # 2978 of SBB Historic returned to Switzerland after a 15 months overhaul in the Meiningen steamlocomotive work in Germany. The loc... (more)

Fourcylinder compound 2-10-0 freight train steamlocomotive C 5/6 # 2978 of SBB Historic returned to Switzerland after a 15 months overhaul in the Meiningen steamlocomotive work in Germany. The loc... (more)

On this beautiful autumn day, the four cylinder compound 2-10-0 "Elephant" C 5/6 # 2978 of SBB Historic pulled a 4 car train from Erstfeld to Göschenen on the Gotthard north ramp. The t... (more)

With 4 passenger cars (about 160 tons) on the drawbar the "Elephant" C 5/6 # 2978 of SBB Historic is storming up the Areuse gorge (2.1 % grade). The train to Fleurier in the Travers vall... (more)

2-10-0 Gotthard freight steamlocomotive C 5/6 # 2978 called "Elephant" of SBB Historic is just starting in the 2.5 % grade from Sonceboz up to the Pierre Pertuis in the Jura mountains. T... (more)

2-10-0 fourcylinder compound freight train steamlocomotive "Elephant" C 5/6 # 2978 of SBB Historic is running from Olten to Brugg AG with the empty rolling stock (express train of the 19... (more)

2-10-0 steamlocomotive C 5/6 # 2978 "Elephant" of SBB Historic is on the way from Brugg AG via Koblenz-Eglisau-Schaffhausen-Singen to Heilbronn, and the other day further to Meiningen. T... (more)

The 2-10-0 freight train steamlocomotive C 5/6 # 2978 "Elephant" of SBB Historic is on the way from Brugg AG via Schaffhausen-Singen-Rottweil-Heilbronn-Würzburg to Meiningen, for a boil... (more)

The 2-10-0 freight train steamlocomotive C 5/6 # 2978 "Elephant" of SBB Historic is on the way from Brugg AG via Schaffhausen-Singen-Rottweil-Heilbronn-Würzburg to Meiningen, for a boiler repair ... (more)

2-10-0 four cylinder compound steamlocomotive "Elephant" C 5/6 # 2978 of SBB Historic, built 1917 by SLM Winterthur, is celebrating 125 years of the Gotthard line through the Alps with a public sp... (more)

The 2-10-0 Gotthard freight train steamlocomotive C 5/6 # 2978 "Elephant" of SBB Historic made a trip from Erstfeld to Göschenen and back this day.

2-10-0 Gotthard freighttrain steamlocomotive C 5/6 "Elephant" # 2978 of SBB Historic on the turntable of the Bahnpark Brugg (AG). This was the last built standard gauge steamlocomotive of the SBB,... (more)