50 years of Ge 4/4 II! Locomotive # 611 "Landquart", currently on the road in a colorful advertising livery for Login, was delivered to the Rhaetian Railway on May 30, 1973 as first of the series by SLM and BBC. Here, it pulls Regio Express 1741 from Chur to Disentis/Mustér through the imposing gorge of the Vorderrhein, called Ruinaulta, between Versam-Safien and Valendas-Sagogn. A total of 23 locomotives of the 1700 kW Ge 4/4 II were built in two series until 1985, of which 21 are still in daily service today. The newly established "Green & Chrome" foundation is lobbying the RhB to have locomotive # 611 largely restored to its delivery condition before the end of this year, i.e. with round lower headlights, painted green with inscriptions in chrome. The locomotive will then possibly pull the new "Landwasser Shuttle" train between Filisur and Alvaneu from 2024 and remind of the time of the 1970' and 1980' years.
