Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 3 was built by SLM Winterthur in 1913 for the "Compagnie suisse du chemin de fer de la Furka (Brig-Furka-Disentis)" (BFD) and ran later for the successi... (more)

Cogwheel diesel locomotive HGm 4/4 # 61 of the Matterhorn-Gotthard Bahn (MGB), rented to the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB), shoving a flat car with coal and pulling steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 3 ... (more)

Unique gathering of four operational cogwheel steam locomotives HG 3/4 from a series of originally 10 locomotives, which were built in 1913/4 by SLM Winterthur for the Compagnie suisse du chemin d... (more)

The name of the cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 2/3 # 6 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke is "Weisshorn", and so is the name of the wonderful white pyramid in the background, 4506 meter (13... (more)

"Crocodile" HGe 4/4 # 15 of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn (MGB) (former Visp-Zermatt-Bahn VZ) from 1929 is not familiar in Oberwald, because this is former Furka-Oberalp-Bahn (FO) territo... (more)

With an impressive plume of black smoke, cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 4 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke is pulling train 160 from Oberwald to Realp over the rack section between Oberwald a... (more)

Four cylinder compound cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 4 of the DFB, built in 1913 by SLM Winterthur for the Brig-Furka-Disentis (BFD) and running for the Furka-Oberalp-Bahn (FO) from 1926. Sinc... (more)

Cogwheel diesel locomotive HGm 4/4 # 61 of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn, on loan to the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke, with the extinguish and fire fighting train returning from the open line to Obe... (more)

Cogwheel diesel locomotive HGm 4/4 # 61 of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn on loan to the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke with the extinguish and fire fighting train, following the steam train on the sec... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 9 from 1914, lettered as "BFD 9" (Compagnie Suisse du chemin de fer de la Furka Brigue-Furka-Disentis"), has to be polished to a high gloss for the... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 9 from 1914 with a special train for the stockholders meeting, on the rack section above Oberwald.

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 9 of the DFB with the special train 1135 from Realp via Furka and Gletsch to Oberwald for the meeting of the stockholders, will soon reach her destination.

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 9 of the DFB on the turntable in Oberwald, looking like new. The 4 cylinder compound locomotive was built in 1914 by SLM Winterthur for the "Compagnie suisse du C... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 4 of the DFB with the train 160 from Oberwald via Gletsch and Furka to Realp on the rack section above Oberwald towards Gletsch.

For the second leg of the journey, from Oberwald to Brig, the 100 year old cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 9 is polished to a high gloss! The locomotive pulled a special train for the stockholde... (more)