sorry, I meant the test of the DB 103 between Zürich and Olten (the picture Marcus attached was taken at the eastern portal of the Heitersberg tunnel I guess). The 103 seems to have a long pole attach

Any idea what the purpose of the test was? (the test of the DB 103 on BLS)

To me it seems that the different colour is just an artefact of the light, and the different angle of the painted surface. The different gray shades of the roof coverings, on the other hand, may be du

I understand that in view of current advice and regulations, the operation of restaurants on trains is suspended. It is however still surprising how many restaurant cars are still running, but simply

If you want to consider recovery of closed tram routes, there is also Guisanplatz to Wankdorf in Bern, Farbhof to Schlieren in Zürich, various bits in Geneva, and if you don't mind considering deviati

A little, maybe slightly amusing anecdote. I went to the WB yesterday (Sunday) afternoon to stomp up and down the line a bit and get some pictures. Knowing well that this might well be my last visit.

In this particular case I would agree. But in general, and in view of the fact that Switzerland doesn't have many closed lines, at least not compared to the likes of Britain or France, there does seem

That is true. However there are other arguments that speak for going the other way. I always find the Gotthard route going South to be like a series of visual discoveries, each one greater than the la

I doubt it. I think many of the stations are away from the villages they serve, so the bus is actually a better option.

They said something similar about Eurotunnel as well, but all the major incidents that occurred have led to both tunnels closing. I hope the Gotthard Base Tunnel is more operationally robust in that r

Nobody can predict all future scenarios. But some arguments that strongly speak against this: Of course my own personal speculation of course. I'm not claiming any greater wisdom here. 1) loss of Goth

As far as I know there are no freight sidings being along the old route that are still served, not even sporadically. One exception is in connection with the construction of the second Gotthard road t

I don't think the objective was ever to shorten the distance, but to make the route usable by freight trains with greater clearances. As a side effect the old tunnel will serve as a service and emerge

that line must have taken more than 100 years to complete :)

I would be interested in such a group. I'm not really a hardcore modeler myself. More a collector of rolling stock. I don't have a proper layout to run anything on, and would preferably like to join a

I was recently musing on how the Swiss railway system was before the Heitersberg tunnel was completed. I guess everything between Zürich and Basel / Bern and further west would have had to come throug

I was on that tour today with two friends. Was anybody else from this group on the train?

When photographing trains, and even more so trams (which is more my main interest in photography) it is virtually impossible not to get people in the picture, and indeed shots with people in them are

Question here about the history of RBe push-pull sets for the purposes of correct formations on a model railway. This isn't very long ago, but memory can play tricks. From memory, when the S-Bahn Züri

I wonder how they define photography for private use. Many railway photographers these days share their photos on playces like Flickr, Facebook or DeviantArt, or have their own private photo sites. Wo