A lazy day beside the pool! That was the ever growing pool of rainwater beside my parking spot next to the Shaffhausen - Zürich line south of Eglisau. It rained all morning so there was no point in doing anything apart from sitting in the car watching the trains go by. Only a visit from the Border Police livened things up. Fortunately alles was in ordnung and they soon departed.

Passenger services were back to normal after Thursday’s holiday with 460.054 on the Shaffhausen - Zürich IRs and 450s on the Rafz - Pfäffikon S-Bahn services. Interestingly, none of the 450s that went to Pfäffikon came back in the seven hours I was there so the diagram must be fairly complex. The REs were still 511s with the same units shuttling back and forth all day and the Stuttgart Zürich ICs were the booked mix of one 420 and two 421s.

There were a number of freights but only one stone train all day, and that was worked by an Re6/6 rather than the hoped for Ae6/6. By mid afternoon I’d given up hope of getting an Ae6/6 and went to Bülach where the same three locos were in exactly the same place as the previous day. I got the impression that the Ae6/6s were only used when nothing else was available and traffic would have to pick up significantly before they would be turned out.

No point in hanging around then, so it was off to Germany and the start of the long journey home.

S of Eglisau

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
450.005 mid train 450.071 mid train 450.048 propelling	18526	07:22 Pfäffikon - Rafz	08:39
11634		SB Oil Tanks	08:53
11243 11254		SB Light Engines	09:03
620.061		SB Freight	09:14
450.048	18535	09:17 Rafz - Pfäffikon	09:25
11304	IC282	09:05 Zürich HB - Stuttgart	09:25
450.071 450.005	29251	09:25 Rafz - Bülach ECS	09:32
460.054	IR2567	09:18 Schaffhausen - Zürich HB	09:35
450.024 mid train 450.087 propelling	18530	08:22 Pfäffikon - Rafz	09:36
450.087	18539	10:17 Rafz - Pfäffikon	10:24
460.054 propelling	IR2568	10:05 Zürich HB - Schaffhausen	10:25
421.392	IC181	05:56 Frankfurt(M) Hbf - Zürich HB	10:35
450.107 propelling	18534	09:22 Pfäffikon - Rafz	10:47
11254 11243	44696	NB Freight	10:54
11350		NB Light Engine	11:14
450.107	18543	11:17 Rafz - Pfäffikon	11:25
421.394	IC280	11:05 Zürich HB - Stuttgart	11:26
460.054	IR2571	11:18 Schaffhausen - Zürich HB	11:35
450.113 propelling	18538	10:22 Pfäffikon - Rafz	11:49
11350		SB Freight	12:11
450.113	18549	12:17 Rafz - Pfäffikon	12:24
460.054 propelling	IR2572	12:05 Zürich HB - Schaffhausen	12:25
11304	IC183	09:56 Stuttgart Hbf - Zürich HB	12:37
450.006	18542		12:39
450.006 propelling	18555	13:17 Rafz - Pfäffikon	13:25
421.392	IC186	13:05 Zürich HB - Stuttgart	13:28
460.054	IR2575	13:18 Schaffhausen - Zürich HB	13:36
450.072 propelling	18548	12:22 Pfäffikon - Rafz	13:38
11615		NB Light Engine	13:45
460.054 propelling	IR2576	14:05 Zürich HB - Schaffhausen	14:25
450.072	18559	14:17 Rafz - Pfäffikon	14:31
450.105 propelling	18554	13:22 Pfäffikon - Rafz	14:35
421.394	IC185	11:56 Stuttgart Hbf - Zürich HB	14:37
11615		SB Stone	14:44

S of Rottweil-Saline

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
650.xxx-HzL 650.xxx-HzL	HzL88112	15:28 Giesingen-Leipferdingen - Braunlingen	16:54
101.141	IC281	15:56 Stuttgart Hbf - Zürich HB	17:12
611.027	RE22315	17:11 Rottweil - Neustadt(Schwarzw)	17:14

N of Aldingen

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
146.xxx	RE19048	17:19 Singen(Hohentw) - Stuttgart Hbf	18:01