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What? No unwanted visitors yet? What´s happening? Zoe, one more of your excellent Halloween Special [D], please. Chris - here in good old Europe, anything above 64 miles is considered to be long distance [:-^]. Just to give you a practical example. Hamburg to Munich is a distance of about 550 miles. Your option is to take the plane, the train or the car. With a car, you need about 7 - 8 hours for that distance, the plane takes about 75 minutes, but you need to drive to the airport, park your car, walk to the check-in counter, wait in the line, clear security. As you are requested to check in 1hr. ahead of departure time, you already have 2 hrs. on the clock, before the plane takes off. Upon arrival in Munich, you will find that the airport is a 90 minute train ride away from the city of Munich. Add to this about 15 min. for leaving the plane, buying the train ticket and boarding the train, you are now totaling 5 hrs. for the trip - the same time the train takes to get you there and at about the same cost, but much cheaper than taking your car. This is where train travel makes a lot of sense, but how many times do you find a situation like this in the US? I don´t think that long distance train travel in the US makes sense, unless you build a dedicated system, capable of achieving average speeds of 200 + mph, which is technically viable, but economically not feasible. I am afraid that I don´t see much of a chance to resurrect the good old days of trains in the US - you just can´t turn back the clock  60 years, only 1 hour is possible. Did I tell you that I wrote my thesis in economics on the future of train travel in Germany? I´d be a good adviser to your administration [:-^] Well, I´ll be calling it a day for now - I want to get some rest before train night starts on TV. TTFN
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