Bill's Excellent Swiss Train & Tram Adventure

[bill937ca]

The final train is the Red Arrow. The Red Arrow is a group of similar but different rail cars and trains built in the 1930s.  The were a mixture of single units and double units, either diesel or electrically powered.  The unit in the photos is the Churchill Arrow which was once used by Winston Churchill to deliver a famous speech on the future of Europe in 1946.  It is now used as a special event train.  Here it is running as a Fondue train.  Zurich has Fondue trams @ 125 Swiss Francs per passenger which sell out for the season within days.  I spotted this train just after I had dinner the final evening.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Arrow_(Swiss_train)

Edited 6 hours ago by bill937ca

[kuro68000]

I wonder if it's like buying a car and they charge €500 extra for the nice pearlescent paint.

[bill937ca]

8 hours ago, kuro68000 said:

I wonder if it's like buying a car and they charge €500 extra for the nice pearlescent paint.

Everything is pricey in Switzerland.  I have to buy breakfast at the hotel. My breakfast the first day before I was in the hotel was $36 Canadian for two eggs, bacon, bread and coffee. Wow! But, OH what trams and trains.

Edited 5 hours ago by bill937ca