Hi all, Thanks Adrian and Markus, for guiding me to this group! I have a few questions for the members: (1) Is there any comprehensive table on the Internet...
... delivered in 1939, served Churchill when he visited Switzerland and thus got the nickname "Churchill-Pfeil" (Churchill arrow). It has always been a charter...
... Sorry Markus, not "never used in regular service". Remember the "Expo" year 1964, when 1021 was used in regular service (I have a photo of it at ...
... (1) Is there any comprehensive table on the Internet describing measurements (length, width etc.) of SBB loks like the Re 4/4I, Re 4/4II, Ae 3/6II etc.? I...
... was until ... service! ... Friends, I happened to drive through there today, and yes, there is indeed a perfect blue/white sign on the "northern" wall of...
Hello all, Recently I sat in a coach (on a RE Bern-Olten) that I couldn't place. On the outside this coach had the same livery as the repainted EWiv, but it...
What you have seen is one of the rebuilt SBB RIC cars, of which they have (I think) some 20 units. They were originally painted in the orange-grey livery, and...
Hello, I have a few questions about the line Herzogenbuchsee - Solothurn. On a recent trip in that area I saw that a most of the line still seems to be in...
The Tunnel opened in 1993. A few years later, Swatch placed an ad in the
tunnel wall with a series of pictures which, when viewed from inside a fast
moving...
... absolutely correct. opening scheduled for Dec 2004. The old line Herzogenbuchsee - Solothurn has been formally closed, but part of the right-of-way will be...
In the April Schweizer Eisenbahn Revue the list of Rollmaterual- Mutationen SBB shows that the SBB has acquired two tractors (Tm 236 649 and Tm 233 950) for...
... They were MThB 236 643 and 644 Two more MThB Tm went to SBB but in one case the number is not clear and has not yet appeared in official lists. Markus,...
Sorry, I was too fast... ... 236 649 actually *was* 236 649-0 but this it NOT an SBB number It was sold to SBB and is an "ant", in German "Ameise", SBB class...
Schweizer Eisenbahn-Revue 5/2003 has arrived. Cover scan is in the files: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SwissRail/files/SER_cover/ Besides international news,...
... Markus, All? One of them (with Kreuzlingen publicity livery) was still standing in the former SLM works area at Winterthur yesterday. Perhaps a long- ...
... Markus, All? One of them (with Kreuzlingen publicity livery) was still standing in the former SLM works area at Winterthur yesterday. Perhaps a long- ...
... No, it was this unit that encountered problems on the move to Schaffhausen and was sent to Winpro on 18 March behind an Ae 6/6 (cp) for repair which...
I have a few questions: ... What is ASm? snip ... What is MVR? ... Returning from St Moritz to Chur via Davos, we got off the train at Bergün thinking we were...
... Aare Seeland mobil, was OSST-group with RVO Regionalverkehr Oberaargau SNB Solothurn-Niderbipp-Bahn BTI Biel -Täuffelen-Ins-Bahn OAK Oberaargauische...
Hello from Paris "RhB to close Mesolcina line..." that is really bad news ! is the closing date known ? Do you know whether the Società Esercizio Ferroviario...
ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE: Pleas delete all lines of earlier posting you don't refer to. Thanks. ... Closing date is not yet fixed. Search for a solution to transfer...
Thanks for the info Markus. Here is a summary of the situation as I see it with an additional query.. Any further info from yourself or anybody else would be...
... They were built at the same time as the DB Bpmz 291 cars, and had some similarities (the seats were the same basic design). There have actually been "pure...
... (2) is the correct answer. According to the book "Rhaetische Bahn" by Bernhard Studer, the line should go via the St. Bernardino pass, not using a tunnel. ...