Side view on DBB 853 at Burgdorf on 17 May 2025. Many C-coupled steam locos have been numbered E 3/3, even with some differences, like this loco, that ...

Side view on DBB 853 at Burgdorf on 17 May 2025.

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Ex-BLS 225 041 hauls an extra train out of the Depot of Burgdorf on 17 May 2025.

DBB 853 has arived at Burgdorf with one of many special trains of the great train bonanza 150 Years of Emmentalbahn on 17 May 2025.

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Side view on DBB 853 at Burgdorf on 17 May 2025. Many C-coupled steam locos have been numbered E 3/3, even with some differences, like this loco, that doesn't have side water tanks -as the Tigerli, also numbered E 3/3- does have.

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DBB steamer Lok-3 LANGNAU pushes a steam shuttle train out of Konolfingen station into the depot a few yards further in the background on Sunday 18 May 2025.

Side view on DBB 853 at Burgdorf on 17 May 2025.

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The traditional Gotthelf Market takes place in Sumiswald, and the Emmental Railway (Emmentalbahn) runs several steam trains on the Sumiswald Grünen - Wasen i.E. line for this event. The picture shows the E 3/3 853 of the Bern Steam Railway Association traveling from Sumiswald to Wasen near the Oberei stop. This steam locomotive was built in Winterthur in 1890 under factory number 629 and delivered to the Jura-Simplon Railway (J-S) as F3 853. The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) assigned the E 3/3 series shunting locomotives, numbered 851-853, to Group 82 and renumbered 8571-8576. In 1911, locomotive E 3/3 853 received a new boiler and was sold to the RVT (Regional Transport Company) where it remained in service until 1928, when it was used as an industrial shunting locomotive by Von Roll in Gerlafingen and Klus. When diesel locomotives made steam locomotives obsolete, the Düby Foundation saved this one from being scrapped by transferring it to the DBB (Deutsche Bahn-Gesellschaft). After an overhaul in 1983, it entered service on the Sensetalbahn, among other lines. Following another overhaul in 2021, the DBB E 3/3 853 is primarily used on the Emmentalbahn line between Sumiswald-Grünen and Wasen i.E. Today, the E 3/3 853 bears the UIC number 90 85 0008 573-7. June 14, 2025 
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Switzerland / Steam locomotives / E 3/3, Switzerland / Heritage Railways and Museums / Emmentalbahn

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