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  1. mcropod

    National Rail Museum - Buenos Aires, Argentina

    I'm in favour of seeing other countries' railway history, as added to the development of the railways was the introduction of football, which - especially in the case of Argentina - has become a major national identity and focus. As I remember, there are still important Argentinian club teams...
  2. mcropod

    Innocent abroad - to Paris in 1969

    Many thanks for posting here. I recently saw a British Army film on youtube showing the procedures to reach West Berlin from the Allied (likely British) Sector taking that military train - it was a how to educational film about the military procedures involved. There was a companion one about...
  3. mcropod

    Deutschland ticket

    Thankyou for the tour and your pix!
  4. mcropod

    VIA Canadian and the Canadians

    I agree with your comparisons about distance and time, and you correctly identify that the fares for the I/P and Ghan in Oz is inclusive of meals and all drinks at an open bar. Both trains are much more than a transport option - in fact, I reckon they fail as transport options, in the same way...
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    Iran train travel

    There's a trip in Iran I'd like to make, too, v v - the overnighter to/from Turkey. But independent travel in Iran has too many barriers for me at present, mostly to do with US foreign policy screwing down access to funds and using credit-cards. In addition to which, the USA then makes it...
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    A little "training" in Europe

    Scotland likes its bridges, and has some of its iconic one on its banknotes, including the Forth Rail Bridge and the West Highland Line's Glenfinnan Viaduct. A Scottish travel vlogger I follow - Steve Marsh - has a youtube vid where he takes up the theme and travels to each of them.
  7. mcropod

    A day in the life on the Eaglette

    Thanks for letting me join you on the ride, Mr D - I'd have been up for a short-notice ride were I in your neck of the woods, too! Sounds like a great day out without much wallet-wear!
  8. mcropod

    VIA Canadian and the Canadians

    My recollection is that it was on day two on my eastbound trip, so likely before Winnipeg, which is where I understand there's a crew change. Either way, as VIA is a national service, I expected that national policies would apply nationally. It'd be different here in Oz, as there's no national...
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    VIA Canadian and the Canadians

    I was a passenger on a Vancouver to Toronto Canadian a couple of years ago and encountered a similar situation. As a consequence of table-lotto at one mealtime I was seated across from a man/woman couple who turned out to be Francophone Canadians, as well as a monolingual solo bloke (like moi)...
  10. mcropod

    Capitol Corridor 3/21/23: Train Derailment

    Eucalyptus are notorious limb-droppers - good thing it looked like a small one, the biggies'll do serious damage. This was one of our recent ones - and not in a storm at all - it just decided to split and shed!
  11. mcropod

    Private Car Ride for 7 days!

    Sounds like a great initiative - I hope it all works out for you - well done!
  12. mcropod

    HSR vs Express train travel ~ A Tale of Two Train Journeys

    Both Vietnam and Japan are roughly in my neighbourhood - certainly close to our own timezone. I'm definitely keen to get aboard Vietnam's Reunification Express, but I'm totally unfussed about whether I get a ride on the Japanese superspeed ones.
  13. mcropod

    Regional passenger service - cabview - Maryborough to Ballarat (central Victoria).

    I found this cabview ride on the Maryborough to Ballarat line in the state of Victoria in Australia. It looks like one of the official orientation videos as it shows the speed limits and crossings from the yard at Maryborough to the station at Ballarat. BTW - an 'Occo' crossing is a private...
  14. mcropod

    Cab rides on the Melbourne-Ballarat line (Victoria, Australia)

    Not from Adelaide - from Ballarat, and as you rightly say, on Vlocities. Fine enough t4ains for the 90 minute journey. I've ridden the Adelaide-Melbourne Overlander, but that veers south at Ararat (an hour west of Ballarat) where it hits VLine territory and broad-gauge. Its path is on the...
  15. mcropod

    Cab rides on the Melbourne-Ballarat line (Victoria, Australia)

    I'm glad there are forumites who liked the vids, and the trips. I'll be on that line again for a quick in-and-out Melbourne visit on Tuesday, so I'll take special note as we go by the Bungaree area. I saw this youtube vid last night about the last train to Waubra - a small settlement to...
  16. mcropod

    R.I.P. Dirt, the Nevada Northern Cat

    Hah - it wasn't my imagination! :) https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/07/25/Privatization-question-on-British-Rails-cats/4136743572800/
  17. mcropod

    R.I.P. Dirt, the Nevada Northern Cat

    Cats and railways are well-suited - every railways station had its own station cat. I was in Scotland in the early 1990s at a time when there was a move to privatise the railways and decisions were being made as to which assets belonged to which proposed privatised organisation. I read a story...
  18. mcropod

    Boarding the Indian Pacific in Sydney, Australia!

    I'm glad you liked the on-board IP crew - I agree that they do really well in the Oz style of easily relating to customers without being servile or snooty. The off-train guides are a bit more hit and miss, and I found some a bit underdone as far as subject expertise is concerned - but, to be...
  19. mcropod

    Boarding the Indian Pacific in Sydney, Australia!

    I can't think of any red raptor here in Oz - ours are brown mostly, and the widespread ones are wedgetailed eagles - wedgies to us locals, but they are huge birds as are the kites which I'd expect you to see circling grassfires waiting for prey to dash out of the flames. I wonder if your white...
  20. mcropod

    Boarding the Indian Pacific in Sydney, Australia!

    Maybe the pink bird was the galah - the clown member of the vast number of parrots and cockatoos here. Fab creatures over lots of the country and are always fun to see as they gather on the ground to feed. It's led to 'Galah' being used as an Oz (inoffensive) insult for a person who's a bit silly.
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