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Glacier Express, Bernina
Express & Golden Pass:
Switzerland's Classic Trains
Angela Walker
Rhaeschen Railway
Montreux-Oberland Bernois
T
he spectacular Bernina line
was completed in 1910 and
is run by Rhaetian Railways. Beginning in Chur, St.
Moritz or Davos, it passes the
glaciers of Piz Bernina, making
this the highest railway crossing in the Alps. It travels over
38 miles, climbing grades of
up to 7%-without rack and
pinion-to more than 7,391 feet
at the Bernina Pass summit and
drops down to just 1,408 feet
at Tirano, Italy. One minute, it
seems, you're above the tree line
in a frozen wasteland; the next,
you're zooming to a landing, like
in an airplane, into a subtropical
Italian paradise.
Bernina Express trains have
spacious first- and second-class
Panorama cars. You won't sit
long, however. The train passes
over viaducts as high as 295 feet,
twists through the Albula Valley,
up past rock formations and glaciers, then plunges into Italy on a
famous corkscrew viaduct.
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The Swiss proudly hail the
Glacier Express as the world's
slowest express train. It takes
almost eight hours and the
services of two private, narrowgauge railroads to traverse the
168 mountainous miles between
two posh resorts-Zermatt and
St. Moritz. The Alpine route of
the Glacier Express is what makes
this train so marvelous-crossing
291 bridges, passing through 91
tunnels and mastering the 6,660foot Oberalp Pass. The first- and
second-class panorama cars are
air-cushioned, air-conditioned
and wheelchair-accessible.
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The 39-mile, meter-gauge
Montreux-Oberland Bernois
(MOB) is one of Switzerland's
oldest electric railways. It connects Montreux, on Lake Geneva,
with the ski resort of Gstaad,
ending in Zweisimmen. The
so-called "Golden Pass Route"
continues on the standard-gauge
Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon railway
to Spiez, and then on to Interlaken, over the Brünig Pass, to the
shores of Lake Lucerne. Covering
almost 150 miles, it is one of the
world's top scenic railway. Besides
its regular passenger service, the
MOB runs the plush Golden Pass
Panoramic Express and ultraplush Golden Pass Super Panoramic Express. The latter boasts
vista-dome cars for drinking in
the spectacular mountain scenery.
Super Panoramic Express trains
also have a special, eight-passenger viewing area in the front of
the train, above the driver, for the
ultimate in ringside seats.
James Russo
Angela Walker
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