Once you get into Germany it is almost a one-track country branch line for most of the way.....
As I recall, driving from MUC, where I was working, down to the border a couple of times, the geography around there compels it to be a very winding route. The track and the road wiggle through the valleys together.
I have to say, based on nothing more than an outsider's point of view, the chance of Swiss surviving another five years must be very low indeed. From what has been said here, it looks like it will go to the wire (again) and then a fire sale. If they sold themselves now, some money would be saved - possibly even jobs too, but companies do not do that very often.