The most popular seats on the Rigi Bahn are probably at the front on the open platform of car B # 14, which was built in 1902 by the Rigi Bahn in its own workshop in Vitznau and has 60 seats. The ... (more)

Two classic Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn cogwheel railcars side by side in Vitznau. On this beautiful spring day the Rigi mountain was the destination of very many excursionists. Thus, in the afternoon after... (more)

Cogwheel railcar BDhe 4/4 # 5 (built 1964) of the Rigi Bahnen, with cars B # 1 of 1871 and B # 16 of 1925 is reaching Vitznau, running more or less empty down from Rigi Kulm as first train CC 1110... (more)

Train CC 1145 of the Rigi Bahnen from Vitznau to Rigi Kulm is running up the 25.0 % grade below Freibergen, with the typical rocks (slightly red colored conglomerate) of the Rigi mountain in the b... (more)

Cogwheel railcar BDhe 4/4 # 21 of the Rigi Bahnen reached Vitznau as second train CC 1146b. Now the railcar, together with cab car Bt # 31, is running from the station track 1 over the curved trac... (more)

A blue/white train in Vitznau is not usual. The cogwheel trains of the former Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB) are not allowed to run on the steeper (25.0 % instead of 20.0 %) grades of the former Vitznau-Rig... (more)

When the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn (VRB) was electrified with 1500 V DC in 1937, there were ordered from SLM and BBC 3 electric railcars of type Bhe 2/4 with 72 seats and 450 horsepower. Maximum velocity ... (more)

148 years old cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler, H 1/2 # 7 out of the collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport Lucerne, loaned to the Rigi Bahnen for the 150 years anniversary, is sl... (more)

148 years old cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler, H 1/2 # 7 out of the collection of the Swiss Museum of Transport Lucerne, loaned to the Rigi Bahnen for the 150 years anniversary, is le... (more)

Exactly 150 years after the inauguration of the first cogwheel mountain railroad in Europe, the Rigi Railway from Vitznau on the shores of Lake Lucerne to the Rigi (initially to Rigi Staffelhöhe)... (more)

Exactly 150 years after the inauguration ceremony of the first cogwheel mountain railway in Europe, from Vitznau on the shore of the Vierwaldstättersee (Lake Lucerne) to the Rigi (exactly Rigi St... (more)

Exactly 150 years after the inauguration ceremony of the first cogwheel mountain railway in Europe, from Vitznau on the shore of the Vierwaldstättersee (Lake Lucerne) to the Rigi (exactly Rigi St... (more)

Exactly 150 years after the inauguration ceremony of the first cogwheel mountain railway in Europe, from Vitznau on the shore of the Vierwaldstättersee (Lake Lucerne) to the Rigi (exactly Rigi St... (more)

Exactly 150 years after the inauguration ceremony of the first cogwheel mountain railway in Europe, from Vitznau on the shore of the Vierwaldstättersee (Lake Lucerne) to the Rigi (exactly Rigi St... (more)

The Rigi Bahnen have several vehicles that bear the number 1, such as the railcar Bhe 2/4 # 1 from 1937, the battery tractor Ta 2/2 # 1 from 1982 and also the non-self-propelled diesel snow blower... (more)