railCare AG of Switzerland (not to be confused with the Swedish company Railcare AB) is a private rail operator, which offers
goods transport throughout Switzerland along a network of what they call "hubs". Earlier railCare rented older Re 465 locomotives
from BLS Lötschbergbahn, but today they use their own fleet of Siemens Vectron locomotives, which they call class 476. This is
one of them. These Vectrons have also an auxiliary diesel which enables them to do shunting even on sidetracks with no catenary.
railCare's biggest customer is the cooperative shop chain Coop. Also in this picture we see a train totally dedicated
to Coop's transports.
Picture from Wankdorf station near Bern 9.5.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Some of the locomotives that railCare rented from BLS got their own names and special foils. One of them was for instance the "Black cat".
This one, Re 465 no.017 was the "Pink Panther". The model railway trains manufacturer Roco produced H0 scale models of several of these
machines rented by railCare, including this individual. (I own a model of this one and we used its sound decoder so that now with a push
of a button my Pink Panther model plays the music theme of the Pink Panther movies :-) )
Picture 2.5.2016 by Ilkka Siissalo.
