The project to bring the only operable steam rack-and-pinion locomotive with an upright boiler, the H 1/2 # 7 built in 1873, out of the Swiss Museum of Transport (VHS) and to use it on the Rigi in... (more)

The project to bring the only operable steam rack-and-pinion locomotive with an upright boiler, the H 1/2 # 7 built in 1873, out of the Swiss Museum of Transport (VHS) and to use it on the Rigi in... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 2/3 # 17 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1925 by SLM Winterthur, is shoving the cars B # 15 and B # 14 up the 25.0 % grade below Freibergen towards Rigi Kulm. This was a ch... (more)

Cogwheel train of the Rigi Bahnen with railcar Bhe 2/4 # 4 of 1953 and car B # 16 of 1925 is running the train CC 1122 from Rigi Kulm to Vitznau, crossing the Schnurtobel bridge between Grubisbalm... (more)

Coghweel railcar BDhe 4/4 # 5 of the Rigi Bahnen is a unique vehicle, built in 1964 by SLM, SIG and BBC with 752 kW. It came down from Rigi Kulm as train 1151 to Vitznau (with cars # 8 and # 16) ... (more)

Cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 3 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1937 when the line was electrified, came down from Rigi Kulm to Vitznau as substitute train 1146, and is now turned on the turntable and s... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 1/2 # 7 of the Rigi Bahnen (built in 1873, part of the collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne) came over the Rigi from Arth Goldau today and is standing ... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler H 1/2 # 7 of the Rigi Bahnen (part of the collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne) is shoving passenger car B # 5 up the mountain just abo... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler H 1/2 # 7 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1873 by the SLM Winterthur and part of the collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne, is shoving car ... (more)

This is how it might have looked in 1873 at the Rigi, when locomotive # 7 climbed the mountain on the maximum 25% gradient on a test run, just above the Schnurtobel bridge, between Mittlerschwande... (more)

Cogwheel railcar BDhe 4/4 # 15 (built by SLM and BBC in 1982 for the Arth-Rigi-Bahn) with cab car Bt # 25 of the Rigi Bahnen running down from Rigi Staffel to Vitznau as train CC 1110a, between Fr... (more)

Cogwheel railcar Bhe 2/4 # 4 of the Rigi Bahnen in Vitznau in front of the ship station building of 1912, which is listed as historical monument. The railcar was built in 1953 by SLM Winterthur an... (more)

Three vehicles of the Rigi Bahnen, three different power systems (steam/battery/electricity). In front steamlocomotive H 2/3 # 16 of 1923 (SLM Winterthur). It is just blowing out the smoke pipes w... (more)

I think it would be a very great pleasure to do the Grand Tour of Switzerland with this cute little battery vehicle!

Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 2/3 # 16 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1923 by SLM Winterthur, is shoving cars B # 15 and B # 5 up to the Rigi, on the 25.0 % grade between Mittlerschwanden and Grubisbal... (more)