Alfred Moser (Author)

Alfred Moser (born December 4, 1879 in Bern , † 1953 in Basel ) was a Swiss train driver and specialist book author . His book, The Steam Operation of the Swiss Railways , which has appeared in several editions, is considered the standard work for steam operation in Switzerland.

Personal

Between 1895 and 1899 he completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic in the Bern arms factory . Then he went to the technical center in Burgdorf. In 1902 he started with the Jura-Simplon-Bahn , which was nationalized in 1903, and so he came to the SBB . He learned the profession of train driver and moved to Basel in 1912, where he spent the rest of his life. There he began to work as an author. He was the first to publish a description of the steam distribution and control of steam locomotives, which his employer, the SBB, served for years as instruction and teaching material. Then he began to write the book The Steam Operation of the Swiss Railways .

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The book Der Dampfbetrieb der Schweizerischen Eisenbahnen was published for the first time in 1923. It became the standard work on steam operations on the railways in Switzerland and is also called the Moser book for short . The revised second edition was published in 1938. For the 100th anniversary of the Swiss railways in 1947, the third revised and updated edition appeared.

The fourth edition, which appeared in 1967, could no longer be edited by Alfred Moser. At the end of steam operation at SBB, there were primarily only additions. Most of the text, however, comes from Moser's pen. The editors of the fourth edition are Paul Winter, Hans Schneeberger, Wilhelm Haldi, Walter Trüb and Alex Amstein. The fourth edition had to be reprinted as early as 1967 because it was sold out.

In the next two reprints, which appeared after 1967, the whereabouts of the locomotives were tracked, so that they are also referred to as 5th and 6th editions. But the text part is based on the fourth edition. In 2006 the Swiss Association of Railway Amateurs (SVEA) published a 7th revised edition, which also includes the industrial steam locomotives and the steam locomotives built from 1986 onwards.

Fonts

• Alfred Moser: The steam operation of the Swiss railways 1847–1966 . 6th updated and supplemented edition. Birkhäuser, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-7643-0742-0 . (In the book: ISBN 3-7642-0742-0 )
• The steam operation of the Swiss railways 1847-2006 . 7th updated and supplemented edition, Swiss Association of Railway Amateurs (SVEA), Bühler Druck, Zurich 2006. ISBN 978-3-033-00948-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfred Moser in the catalog of the German National Library