Another frustrating day, but most of them are on this trip! For once the weather forecast was for full sun all over Switzerland but it rapidly clouded up around Yverdon and was completely overcast by around 08:00. I abandoned any ideas of getting the Estavayer train at Ependes and headed north to Olten to try to find some Ae6/6s on the Biel/Bienne line, in theory one of the best places to find the class. There were around half a dozen trains expected to be hauled by Ae6/6s during the period I was there but in over five hours the number seen remained a big fat zero. In total 18 freights were seen, all Re6/6 or Re4/4ii hauled except for a pair of trips worked by an 843, so it wasn’t a waste of time.

By 16:00 the light had moved too far round so I moved to Olten for an hour. During that time 12 freights were seen, two of them Ae6/6 hauled, but I only managed to photograph one freight, hauled by a pair of BLS “Brownies”. The philosophy appeared to be to send the freights through any available platform so it was next to impossible to know where to stand. The station was also busy with 460s on push-pull sets but most were at the north end of their sets making photography difficult.

From Olten I travelled via Luzern to Göschenen, noting another Ae6/6 on shed at Göschenen.

Yvonand

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
560.209	14513	06:26 Romont - Yverdon-les-Bains	07:50 (travelled Yvonand to Yverdon-les-Bains)

Yverdon-les-Bains

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
11125	IR1610	07:53 Neuchâtel - Lausanne	08:14
500.012	ICN519	08:05 Genève-Aéroport - St.Gallen	09:04 (travelled Yverdon-les-Bains to Olten)

Neuchâtel

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
11219		stabled on stock	09:25 (for 5135 to Biel?)
11234 420.160		Light Engines	09:25 (for Cottendart trip?)
460.049 propelling	RE2934	09:52 Biel/Bienne - Bern	09:42

Olten

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
562.003	6840	10:35 Olten - Biel/Bienne	10:35 (travelled Olten to Oberbuchsiten)

Härkingen Paketpost

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
11601		Stabled	10:46

W of Oberbuchsiten

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
11267	50915	09:20 Eclepens - Gossau Postal	10:53
560.218	6837	10:17 Biel/Bienne - Olten	11:09
460.110 propelling	IR2118	09:03 Konstanz - Biel/Bienne	11:12
11628 11166		Cornaux - ?? Oil Tanks	11:13
560.210	6844	11:10 Olten - Solothurn	11:27
560.255	6841	11:11 Solothurn - Olten	11:33
11240	50912	12:16 Zürich-Mulligen - Geneve Postal	11:47
460.065	IR2121	11:15 Biel/Bienne - Konstanz	11:49
11275 11273	64733	11:42 Solothurn - Olten Freight	11:51
11320	50604	11:41 Härkingen - Daillens Postal	11:56
11355	50717	09:52 Lausanne Triage - Frauenfeld Paketpost Postal	12:12
11285		EB Ballast	12:17
11353 11363		WB Light	12:30 (62561?)
11273 11275	64776	12:47 Olten RB - Solothurn Freight	12:33
460.110	IR2123	12:15 Biel/Bienne - Konstanz	12:48
560.215	6852	12:35 Olten - Biel/Bienne	12:50
843.063	57174	12:38 Härkingen - Oensingen Vans	13:08
11614		Cornaux - ?? Oil Tanks	13:39
460.081	IR2125	13:15 Biel/Bienne - Konstanz	13:49
560.221	6856	13:35 Olten - Biel/Bienne	13:51
420.356	50043	Renens VD - Däniken Vans	13:53
560.215	6851	13:17 Biel/Bienne - Olten	14:08
11234	50241	Geneve Cargo - Lenzburg Vans	14:11
460.114 propelling	IR2124	12:03 Konstanz - Biel/Bienne	14:11
11239	50727	12:33 Daillens - Frauenfeld Paketpost Postal	14:15
11619		?? - Cornaux Oil Tanks	14:18
11293	50728	Frauenfeld - Daillens Postal	14:42
11641	66272	Cornaux - Basel Oil Tanks	14:44
460.026	IR2127	14:15 Biel/Bienne - Konstanz	14:50
560.215	6860	14:35 Olten - Biel/Bienne	14:51
560.218	6859	14:17 Biel/Bienne - Olten	15:07
843.063	57181	Oensingen - Oberbuchsiten Trip Freight	15:11
500.xxx	IR2126	13:03 Konstanz - Biel/Bienne	15:12
620.061	62569	13:36 Wiler - RB Limmattal Freight	15:16
620.055	66745	Cornaux - Basel Birsfelden Hafen Oil Tanks	15:42
460.114 mid train	IR2129	15:15 Biel/Bienne - Konstanz	15:50

Oberbuchsiten

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
560.xxx	6863	15:17 Biel/Bienne - Olten	16:08 (travelled Oberbuchsiten to Olten)

Olten

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
11644		NB Oil Tanks	16:30
610.492	62573	Biel - RB Limmattal Freight	16:34
500.000 500.006	ICN530	14:48 St.Gallen - Genève-Aéroport	16:40
421.383		NB Coal Hoppers	16:41 (Jura Cement)
11654		NB Oil Tanks	16:44
11453	68731	15:55 Basel Birsfelden Hafen - Girlafingen Scrap	16:47
11262 11311		NB Freight	17:08
485.010-BLS 485.012-BLS		NB Intermodal	17:08
11654		SB Oil Tanks	17:09
174-BLS 186-BLS		SB Intermodal	17:10
11652		SB Welded Rails	17:11
Re4/4		SB Rail Grinder	17:14
185.599-XRAIL 185.597-XRAIL		NB Intermodal	17:15
186.904-XRAIL 186.901-XRAIL		SB Intermodal	17:24
500.031	ICN687	17:04 Basel SBB - Chiasso	17:30 (travelled Olten to Arth-Goldau)

Arth-Goldau

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
500.019	EC20	15:10 Milano Centrale - Zürich HB	18:48
11144	IR2283	18:09 Zürich HB - Chiasso	18:55 (travelled Arth-Goldau to Göschenen)
11327 11678		SB Intermodal	18:59

Schwyz

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
186.101-?		NB Car Carriers (empty)	19:07

Flüelen

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
11176		NB Freight	19:21

Erstfeld

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
11339 620.086		NB Intermodal	19:30

Erstfeld Depot

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
Ae6/6		Stabled	19:30 (red, full chrome trim but no shield on nose)