Product: Swiss Rail Journeys 1 [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
Switzerland at its best
These six videos, and the nine that follow, are done the way documentaries should be done. Narration is no more than absolutely necessary, the background music adds to the production and never intrudes, and the image quality is about as good as you can get on VHS tape. Favorite in this set is Arosa Line and Brunig Line parts 1 and 2 -- absolutely breathtaking. There is a good deal of technical and historic railroad information presented, probably for the British trainspotter hobbyists. Following the six videotapes in Swiss Rail Journeys I, there are another six in set II and three more in set III. So far as I can tell, these are still the only ones available in the US from the 24 total programs produced by MITV. (The full set of 24 is sold on DVD by MITV on its Web site, but only in European PAL format, so unless you own a PAL to NTSC converter, you're out of luck there.)