Followup to my previous post about the new Fleischmann releases, here are a couple of photos of the full-sized versions, both from my Swiss trip in the late summer of last year.
First, we have one of the veteran Ae6/6s at Erstfeld on a trainload of aggregates, at the foot of the climb up the north ramp of the Gotthard line. The train has stopped to attach a pilot loco, and the train later attacked the ferocious climb to the summit with the assistance of one of the more modern Re6/6s, an odd-looking combination.
BLS Re485 no 485.019 hurries through Liestal, just south of Basel, on a ‘rolling road’ train bound for Domodossola in Italy. The Re485 will work the train as far as Spiez, where a pair of Re465s will take over.
