Virtual Railfan Tour of Switzerland - Monday - Kaeserburg Model Railway
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This is one of the first things you will see when you get to the Kaeserburg Model Railway in the outskirts of Fribourg at Granges-Paccot. A beautifully restored Rhaetian Railway Ge 2/4 No.212 built in 1913
Actually this is the first indication you are likely to see as you approach.
Reservations are essential as the hours of operation are restricted and it can become busy with school groups
The layout is downstairs in a very large area
the main yard is extensive and there is always something to see
Train movements are controlled by this entrance-exit CTC panel similar to those used on British Railways in the 1960s. Once the route has been set and signals cleared the trains run automatically with built in pauses for the passenger trains at stations.
The layout is meant to represent a Swiss railway operating in Switzerland in a specific era. The scenic attention to detail is exquisite.
It is the small details that bring the layout to life. There is plenty of room for countryside and things do not appear crowded.
There is even a mountain railway
As we leave there is the opportunity to admire the front of ths Ae 6/6
There are a large number of Youtube videos of the Kaeserburg Railway. here are a couple:
Zurich Hauptbahnhof Paul has prepared some extensive notes and photos of the Zurich Hauptbahnhof. This will be in several parts. The busiest station in Switzerland is Zurich Hauptbahnhof (Zurich HB) which is used primarily by the SBB. It has 26 tracks serving almost 3000 trains daily and it is one of the busiest stations in the world. It was built in the 1870s and is a main shopping destination as well as a transport hub. There are three levels for platforms and the "Shopville" shopping plaza. The river Sihl river passes right through the station with platforms passing above and below the river. This shows the general layout of the station with the surrounding tram tracks shown in purple Tracks 3 to 18 are terminal tracks located at ground level, served by two side platforms and seven island platforms. These are used by long-distance trains from throughout Switzerland, and by international trains. Tracks 21 and 22 are underground terminal tracks, served by a sing...
This video, by Noel Wyler, shows what we have just missed. Last Saturday (14 September) the Oensingen Balsthal Railway organized an event to commemorate 60 years of the Re 4/4 locomotives. They brought together 24 of them and ran them as one train. Paul and I flew home on KLM from Schiphol Airport. We took a train from Den Haag directly to the airport. The trip back was marred by a couple with a young boy who was obviously teething. He cried almost continuously for the full six hours. I found I could tune him out when I dug deep into the KLM sound system and found a treasure trove of classical music. Bach violin concertos, Mozart piano concerto No. 23, Beethoven symphonies, Schuman etc. We survived the stupidities at the entrance of the Montreal airport and caught the KLM bus back to Ottawa where we arrived precisely on time. A good ending to a wonderful, tremendous, trip
The weather was beautiful all day. The sky was blue and the few clouds were well above the mountain peaks. We had two objectives today. To ride the steam train between Triengen and Sursee and to meet up with our friend Ruth who volunteers on this railway. The second objective was to see the steam rack operation between Meiringen and Giswil. Getting to Triengen is not straight forward but a lot of fun. We took a main line train from Zurich HB to Aarau, then a local narrow gauge street tramway to Schoftland and a Post Bus to Triengen. The whole is delightful farming country and each item of transport adhered to the timetable. Local tram at Schoftland The ubiquitous Selecta machine is now paired with Lavazza and a photo machine, We like to have time to see the rooks nesting around the local church We arrived in good time at Triengen where the ticket staff were expecting us and pointed to where Ruth was working at the small coffee/bar counter. We had so much to catch up on that I...
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