Swiss Winter Magic
Real Rail Adventures: Swiss Winter Magic—The adventures continue in this Telly Award-winning series with winter routes, fresh destinations, and more Swiss splendors. Host Jeff Wilson highlights Swiss Winter Magic, as he takes world-class trains to grand winter adventures: from Alpine and cross-country skiing, to snow-kiting, bobsledding, fat-tire biking, and snowshoeing. Along the way, stopovers reveal remarkable stories, daily traditions and historic villages.
Real Rail Adventures: Swiss Winter Magic destinations include: Chur, St. Moritz, the Goms Region, Zermatt and the Matterhorn, Gstaad, Zurich, and Mount Rigi. Featured rail lines include: Albula-Bernina Railway, the Glacier Express, the Vitznau-Rigi Bahn, and the Montreux-Oberland Bernois Railway, known as the Golden Pass Line.
Grand Train Tour of Switzerland
Real Rail Adventures: Grand Train Tour of Switzerland – In the second episode of this Telly Award winning series, host Jeff Wilson continues his adventures with another set of train, different destinations, and more Swiss splendors. Viewers’ choices are expanded as well with more Swiss trains—new and old, big and small, breathtaking and efficient. This time Jeff is looking for outdoor excitement in Switzerland aboard the world’s best rail system. Wilson is following the official “Grand Train Tour of Switzerland,” eight train lines that circumnavigate the country. Jeff is on track for open-air fun: He whisks down whitewater rapids in the “Swiss Grand Canyon,” pedals the luminous shore of Lake Constance, kayaks serene Lake Trübsee, and climbs the perilous Mt. Titlis Ridge Walk. Along the way, Jeff enjoys an elegant lunch in a vintage dining car, tries his hand at a train simulator at the Locorama Railway Museum and hikes the Railway Adventure Trail.
Real Rail Adventures: Grand Train Tour of Switerland destinations include: Schaffhausen, Rhein Fall, St. Gallen, Appenzell, Martigny, Engelberg and more. Featured rail lines include: Albula-Bernina Railway, the Glacier Express, The Appenzeller Bahn, The Kambly Cookie Train and more.
Switzerland
Real Rail Adventures: Switzerland In this hour-long public television documentary, Wilson crisscrosses a nation that reveres railroads. Jeff’s mission: discover why the Swiss—and countless others around the globe—love trains. He wonders, “Is it the adrenaline rush of big machines, surging against probability up a mountainside? Is it the thrill of exploration—the way trains slice through remote areas, giving up-close views of inaccessible landscapes? Maybe it’s the nostalgia, the echoes of a time gone.” Jeff concludes, “Maybe we love trains because they’re just plain fun!”
Real Rail Adventures: Switzerland destinations include: Zurich, Chur, Lugano, Bellinzona, Lucerne, Interlaken, Jungfrau, Montreux and more. Featured rail lines include: Albula-Bernina Railway, the Glacier Express, The William Tell Express, the Golden Pass Line, The Chocolate Train and other Swiss trains.
