RailPictures.Net Photo: Rem 487 001, 187 005 Swiss Rail Traffic Rem 487, 187 at Biel, Switzerland by Georg Trüb
 
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» Swiss Rail Traffic (more..)
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» Biel RB (Biel shunting yard) 
» Biel, Switzerland (more..)
» July 19, 2017
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» Georg Trüb (more..)
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Interlocking towers and signal boxes of the SBB are rather modern and technologically advanced generally, with 4 large operation centers supervising and controlling nearly the whole network. But there is a lonely island still, this is Biel RB (Biel shunting yard). Here the red semaphor signals, the blue shunting signals and the switches are operated manualy with levers and wires from a small signal box to this day. So there is an astonishing contrast with modern vehicles, here a pantograph test train entering from Solothurn, with locomotives Rem 487 # 001 of Swiss Rail Traffic (rented to Bombardier) and 187 # 005 of Railpool(rented to the BLS). Both are Bombardier TRAXX F160 AC3 LM type.
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