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Well, Craig, what should I say? I live within earshot of the mainline between Hanburg und Bremen with 250+ train movements each day. Most, if not nearly all, of my train travels I have done in Europe, so I may have quiten an experience in that. The only non-European train travels I did are the following: <ul> <li>Riding the Amtrak Coastal Daylight between Seattle and LA Union Station in 1974</li> <li>Riding the D&RGW narrow gauge train between Durango and Silverton in 1974</li> <li>Taking the Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka in 1984</li> <li>Rode the NY subway in 1992</li> <li>Riding the fast HST between Shanghai and Wuxi in 2008</li> <li>Riding the HST between Beijing and Baoding in 2008.</li> </ul> I have taken the TGV in France, rode the narrow gauge lines in Wales, accompanied a loco test drive in Norway. There is not a single mile of track in Switzerland open to public transport I have no taken a train on. I could continue endlessly [swg] I am not aware that traveling by train in the US has changed much from my experience riding Amtrak back in 1974. It was a great experience, so totally different from what I was used in Europe. It still had much of the splendor of train travel in the 1930´s, albeit a little bit shabby and slow. Some folks may not like this, but there is a 50 year gap between Europe, Asia and the US/Canada.
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