• Re: Trains [was Re: Independence Day]

    From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to Evelyn C. Leeper on Fri Jul 19 19:22:27 2024
    Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
    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.

    But in both cases the food is very good, though in the latter you may
    have to wait for a stop for the chapatti vendors by the tracks.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Evelyn C. Leeper on Fri Jul 19 23:11:36 2024
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    On Fri, 19 Jul 2024, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

    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've seen the movie The Darjeeling Limited and it does look like what you
    are describing. ;)

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