South of Zurich Hbf being looked over by the statue of Alfred Escher (created in bronze by Swiss sculptor Richard Kissling in 1889) - Escher founded a bank and three insurance compaines to finance and insure the Gotthard railway and tunnel, among other things. Because there were not enough engineers available for the construction he also co-founded the Swiss Federal Institute of Technlogy. VBZ Be 4/6 'Mirage' cars - 1675 to service in May 1968 and retained by Zurich as a museum car to date (April 2022); car 1627 to service September 1966, transferred to Vinnytsia in Ukraine in March 2010 and renumbered as their 302 where it remains in operation, Putin willing.
South of Zurich Hbf being looked over by the statue of Alfred Escher (created in bronze by Swiss sculptor Richard Kissling in 1889) - Escher founded a bank and three insurance compaines to finance and insure the Gotthard railway and tunnel, among other things. Because there were not enough engineers available for the construction he also co-founded the Swiss Federal Institute of Technlogy. VBZ Be 4/6 'Mirage' cars - 1675 to service in May 1968 and retained by Zurich as a museum car to date (April 2022); car 1627 to service September 1966, transferred to Vinnytsia in Ukraine in March 2010 and renumbered as their 302 where it remains in operation, Putin willing.