Trains [was Re: Independence Day]

On 7/19/24 5:57 AM, D wrote:

  On Thu, 18 Jul 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:
 

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:

I've also learned that I should have gotten a ticket to the Exchange
Street station, which is less than a mile from the con, not to the
Depew station, which is ten miles away.  Sigh.

>
That is the main benefit of taking the train, that you can make last-minute
changes for little or no added cost. It is only one stop farther on
the empire line.
--scott
>

 Another advantage with the train is that you can travel like a civilized man! The train rolling along, you enjoying the beautiful scenery, perhaps a light dinner in the michelin star restaurang section of the train. After dinner, why not enjoy a game of bridge with your fellow passengers? ;)

I've traveled on trains in many different countries, and I can tell you that a train in India is very different from a train in Japan.  But each is interesting in its own way.  Japanese rail travel is usually fast, frequent, clean, comfortable, and often very expensive.  In India,
on the other hand, it is usually slow, infrequent, dirty, uncomfortable,
and often very cheap.
I will add that these observations are from 1992 and 1996.
--
I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole
like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful)
or that he’s America’s Hitler.  -J. D. Vance