SBB RAe TEE II

The RAe TEE II, later known as RABe EC, is a type of high-speed electric multiple unit trainset of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), which was used from the 1960s until the 1980s on several Trans Europ Express services.

After conversion from first-class-only to two-class configuration, the trainsets continued in use on EuroCity or other services until 1999.

It was designed to be compatible with four different railway electrification systems (different voltages in the overhead lines),[1] used by various countries in Europe, allowing it to operate on long international routes.

[1] Their new livery earned them the nickname "souris gris" (or "graue Maus" in German[2]), meaning "grey mouse".

Thereafter, they were employed only on two pairs of daily IC trains operating between Bern and Frasne,[1][6] which was continuing in early 1996.

An RAe TEE II set running as the Trans Europ Express Iris in 1979, seen departing Zürich for Brussels
At Zürich Hauptbahnhof , 1983
Dining car in 1963
An RABe EC in Zürich in 1992, after being taken out of TEE service (in 1988), converted to two-class and repainted grey. Although no longer a TEE, it still has its TEE badge on the front.