Meet your tour leader:
Werner Schorn
Werner Schorn
"Werner is without a doubt the finest tour leader now living."
- R.C. of Texas, who traveled with Werner Schorn to Switzerland in 2004The Society of International Railway Travelers is proud to have Werner Schorn as our European tour leader. A rail specialist, Werner is from Bonn, Germany, and has been involved with railroad tourism for more than 30 years.
He is director of a private railway company in Germany, which takes hundreds of railfans on great trips throughout the region. He has extensive experience leading group railroad trips through Europe, especially in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, as well as in the U.S. He enjoys many contacts in the Swiss and German rail bureaucracies, which have been of major help in pulling off our complicated itineraries and in making arrangements with special speakers and rail officials in all the countries we visit. He is a long-time railfan and also has had an interesting media career. Besides working in radio, he once served as host for the German version of "The Price is Right," training in Hollywood with Bob Barker!
Mr. Schorn knows the areas we will be traveling to like the back of his hand and is gracious, kind and fun to talk to. He is married and the father of a 16-year-old daughter, Stephanie, who has enjoyed joining her father on several of his rail trips to America. As he says, "I know what the railfans want." He stands 6 feet, 4 inches tall; you won't miss him when he meets you at the airport with our IRT sign! He speaks English, as well as his native German.
In 2006, Werner will be leading the following tours:
A Railfan's Italy: Brenner Pass to the Boot
High-Speed Rail Exploration in France & Spain
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