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
Today we left Yverdon-les-Bains and traveled back to Zurich in preparation for return to Canada tomorrow. In the morning we took an ICN through Neuchatel to Oensingen. We left four minutes late but with a tight throttle and the banking on these trains we left Neuchatel on time - it was an exciting ride. At Oensingen there was quite a lot to see. As well as the main line freight a single manned diesel switcher went across the main line a couple of times to pick up empty cars. The two narrow gauge trams from Solothurn and Langenthal came in and reversed. Main line freight The standard gauge line to Balstall was using an SBB train with TPN markings. In addition there was a magpie poking around on the ground, and a couple of kites flying around. We went on to Olten for lunch at the M igros restaurant. After lunch we took a short trip to Daniken on the main line. Just after we got there we saw three freight trains with Re 420s on them and a further SBB Vectron o...
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