My only experience with passenger trains in the US was riding a
Pennsylvania RR train behind a GG-1 from New York Central to Philadelphia to
visit the Franklin Institute back in 1958.
Europe was a totally different experience. We arrived in Bremerhaven on
the USS Darby, then boarded a steam-pulled troop train for Paris. During the
night, in Belgium, the train was broken up, the dining cars replaced with a
freshly provisioned set, and put back together while the German locomotive was
replaced with a French one.
Visiting relatives in London then was usually a train journey, taking an
SCNF train to Calais, then the channel ferry to Dover and riding a green
British Rail overground train. I remember those mostly for the lack of door
handles on the inside, meant to keep children from opening the doors. You had
to slide the window down and reach outside. Many of those trains had been
built before and immediately after the war.
I loved riding the TGV. Just why the hell can't we have that here?
>
>Driving is time consuming - trains allow you to read, talk to people, get
>some rest, and pollute less, etc.
>
>I regret trains are sometimes too fast these days, and I also miss the
>(real) restaurant cars.
>
>I envy Tina and Tom with their trans-siberian plan, which I DO hope for
>many reasons, Tom’s health being the less selfish one, they can actually
>carry out soon.
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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