#127 is in the hole, crew out of time, will deadhead with 201. Big delays because NS is shipping pipes made for the cancelled Keystone pipeline to Louisiana. With a cut of the high and wides in ... (more)
WB mixed freight, shorter than usual and no DPUs today.
On a nice spring day EB intermodal #23G with 1100 is holding the main for a meet with giant WB mixed freight #127. Today they’ve managed to avoid Maple St. This is not popular with the local c... (more)
Two cogwheel push-pull trains of the Rigi Bahnen are running up the mountain on sight distance on this day of high passenger frequency. In the background Bhe 2/4 # 11 with cab car Bt # 21, in the ... (more)
In summertime, on wednesday there is "Rigi Historic Day" with vintage vehicles in timetabled services. Here the worldwide oldest operational cogwheel railcar BCFhe 2/3 # of 1911, built f... (more)
Sometimes you just have a great day. C of G heritage unit in the AM and a “foreigner” in the PM. Unusual to see a single unit on the point of any NS train. Two DPUs are helping out further ... (more)
This mixed freight catches all the low priority stuff. Today they are ferry power west for whatever reason.
That is more like it! PC I mean. This commemorative is getting a bit ratty with a patina which is reminiscent of its namesake as it charges thru town leading a monster train at speed.
A shorter than usual train must have resulted in several DIT units on the front as the “gut” train rolls along just east of town. A foreign unit is very rare these days.
Cogwheel railcar BDhe 2/4 # 14 with cab car Bt # 24 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1967 for the Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB), is running up the mountain above Rigi Staffel as second train 127. In the backgr... (more)
Cogwheel railcar BDhe 2/4 # 14 with cab car Bt # 24 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1967 for the Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB), is running up on the 20.0 % grade between Rigi Staffel and Rigi Kulm as second t... (more)
Electric railcar 4010 with an Alfa-pendular train from Lisbon to Oporto.