From information signboard:

Rotary snow-plough Xrot m No 100 Rotary Gotthard Railway GB 1895

The snow-plough body contains the boiler and a twin-cylinder steam engine driving the bucket wheel, which is nearly 3 metres in diameter.  The cutting blades were adjustable to cope with the varying hardness of the drifts.  The jet of snow that was hurled away could be directed as far as 90 m sideways and up to 18 m in height.  This patent was developed by Leslie Brothers for the Rocky Mountains in North America, and was superior to competitive products available there.

To mark the inauguration of the Swiss Museum of Transport in 1959, the railway and model railway enthusiasts of Lucerne built a model representing the Gotthard north access ramp between Erstfeld and Wassen. They put in around 30,000 hours of voluntary work.

Ascending the mounting through helical tunnels – the Gotthard railway model shows Erstfeld station, the two imposing bridges over the Chärstelenbach and the Intschireuss and finally the three helical tunnels near Wassen.

The model does not show the motorway since it depicts the landscape as it was around the end of the 1950s.
However, the locomotives and carriages making up the model trains are in some cases considerably newer.

The Swiss Museum of Transport is grateful to the railway and model railway enthusiasts of Lucerne for the newly designed 2007 Gotthard railway model in the rail transport hall as well as for its loving and expert maintenance.