The line over the Furka pass will be closed for the next 7 months, the Steffenbach bridge in the background was lowered/pulled back to the abutments to give the avalanches free path during the win... (more)
Tackling the 11 % grade of the Furka between Tiefenbach and Furka station, with cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 4 of the DFB and a very experienced crew.
Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 9, built by SLM Winterthur in 1914 and lettered as BFD 9 (Brig-Furka-Disentis or BFD was the name of the company then), is reserve this day, stabled in the new wo... (more)
Two steamtrains of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke ready to go in Realp DFB. HG 3/4 # 1 on the left is just starting her "Blue Train" for the Furka, Gletsch and Oberwald. HG 3/4 # 4 on t... (more)