Until the electrification of the various stretches, steam trains puffed and chuffed around the Matterhorn Gotthard Railway network. The locomotives from the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works in Winterthur (SLM) only survived into our millennium in a few isolated cases. Thus, passengers are all the more pleased when the iron horses occasionally snort their way through the curves again. Only on the privatised "Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway" section are steam locomotives still in regular operation.
Among the special features of the Matterhorn Gotthard Railway are the "false" Crocodile locomotives of class HGe 4/4 I . They are called "false" Crocodiles because, in contrast to the SBB locomotives, they do not have any swivelling elements and the engine was not divided into three parts. Also worth mentioning is the special locomotive in this class which was constructed as a prototype during the war years as part of a job-creation scheme by the Swiss Federal Government. Four of these locomotives still run on the Matterhorn Gotthard Railway today.
The majority of trains rely on the powerful HGe 4/4 II , which was originally designed for the Brünig Railway.
A descriptive Text
| Electric locomotives |
22 |
| Electric railcars |
23 |
| Diesel tractors and service motive power units |
18 |
| Steam locomotive (Historic locomotive from 1906) |
1 |
| Driving tailers |
28 |
| Car vans |
30 |
| Luggage and mail vans |
7 |
| Service coaches |
20 |
| Vehicles for snow clearance |
14 |