Switzerland - Industrial locomotives

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This cute little private diesel locomotive built by Schöma is owned by the Swissmills wheat mill, inside the city of Zürich, next to the river Limmat and only less than a kilometre from the main station.
Photo from June 1999 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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This small industrial locomotive Thm 2/2 has had many owners. It used to belong to the company Webereimaschinen of Rüti, Maschinenfabriek of Rüti, then to the company Kummler + Matter which among other things installs railway line security systems, then to Rorschach-Heiden Bergbahn RHB and after Appenzeller Bahnen bought RHB, now it is the tractor Thm 237 916 of Appenzeller Bahnen. Originally the machine is Swiss federal railways SBB's rail tractor of the type Tm III. SBB had 24 of them and seven more were bought by private companies. They were built 1958-66 by SLM and BBC. The machine was intended mainly for shunting inside a depot area. Its top speed is 30 km/h.
Picture from Heiden 28.9.2002 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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This rail truck belongs to the company Benkler, which has a timber yard and sells wood products in Wattwil. The rail truck is originally a German DB machine of the type KLV 53 built in the 1950s.
Picture from Wattwil 29.9.2002 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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This small locomotive made by Henschel in 1959 used to be owned by Regionalbahn Mittelland, which used it at its depot when fixing coaches and locomotives. Today, after BLS Lötschbergbahn bought RM, it works for BLS.
Picture from Zell (in the Kanton of Thurgau) 1.92002 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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This industrial locomotive was at the time when this picture was taken owned by the metal scrap handler company Bühlmann Alteisen AG of Münchenwiler. Previously it had belonged to the railway company BN (Chemin de Fer Berne - Neuchâtel) which today is a part of BLS Lötschbergbahn. It had been built by Moyse in Paris, France.
Picture from Münchenwiler 5.9.2002 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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The same locomotive as above, but seen from the other side.
Picture from Münchenwiler 5.9.2002 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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An old locomotive tractor Tm 2/2 no.72 of the company SOAG is kept in a museum in Delemont, but not much information about this locomotive is available.
Picture from Delemont 5.10.2002 by Ilkka Siissalo.
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