It's five o'clock in the morning, day is breaking. The heavy fuel oil fired "Mikado" 141 R # 1244 is accelerating her short empty passenger train over the 1.1 % grade from Oberwinterthur... (more)
The fuel oil fired 2-8-2 "Mikado" 141 R # 1244, built in 1946 by the Montreal Locomotive Works for the french SNCF, entering Rotkreuz. The wonderful kept beauty has about 3000 HP and is ... (more)
On the journey home from Lucerne, the "Mikado" 141 R # 1244 is accelerating her train from Winterthur. Note the time on the clock, the timetabled departure was 20.20 h.