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I flew one a few years ago and would recommend avoiding the back of the aircraft. Ours had a yaw instability, that was quite noticeable during the initial climb. It later threw me out of the rear lavatory when the pilots got too close to a plane in front of us.

The Indian Pacific and shortened Ghan may have been more fun some years ago when it was publicly owned, especially if you were a student. I flew from Christ Church, NZ to Sydney, on my birthday, and thoroughly enjoyed myself even though I had a bad February flu. Everyone was so nice to me. A New...

Would a one-track feeder, with provisions to later upgrade to two, be that much worse? I have not tried to answer that through modelling, as the present arrangement only adds roughly a half hour a year to 15 hours of (my) travel. I would think any direct route would be a big improvement over the...

Yes, and you can purchase the 9 Euro ticket as a QR-code to show on your smart phone or tablet. But is that a ticket? Call me old-fashioned, but I much prefer something substantial: a ticket printed on railroad stationary – or as the Bahn used to do at small stations into the 1990s, filled out...

I have not taken a sleeper lately, but at least up until a few years ago, Amtrak was good about conjuring something tasty for their first class passengers, such as the late night steak dinners they fed us out of St. Paul, MN when the eastbound EB became an overnight train, arriving in Glenview...

I bought a 9 euro ticket mid day on May 29th from a DB-station ticket machine without issue. It should be just like buying any other printed-on-demand, paper train/bus ticket. (I looked at the ticket under a stereo microscope and confirmed it was freshly printed.)

So, the delay was only half so bad, which is probably small consolation. I was a bit tired and misinterpreted the post. Another wish, that I think would make everyone happier, is for Amtrak to invest in separate tracks, with a platform in between, at or near reciprocal direction meeting points...

I could seeing cutting Amtrak some slack for bad luck, but six issues for a single, (scheduled) six-hour journey? What I heard from riding last time in the Midwest, is that Amtrak management does not care about their employees or passengers. As to airlines, the last trip I took with one former...

On the other hand, a different outfit might have sold tickets that were only valid for, say, the next fourteen days, and made it impossible to buy them further in advance (useful tickets, that is :)).

I sometimes wonder, does Amtrak, outside the Northeast Corridor, understand why they offer Business Class? I could not when I rode BC on a Superliner-equipped Saluki from Chicago to Carbondale. (Among other amusements, I was called late from the Chicago lounge and told to wait on the platform...

Between cars being out of service for wheel refinishing, and the local transit authority charging almost 12 euros one way to get to Bremen (the next big city), I expect our trains will be packed. I have not been in Gronigen since the destruction of the Friesenbrücke over the Ems.

The local rail company still runs railcars like the above during the tourist season, typical two railcars plus a baggage car for bicycles. A friend and I rode it a few years back on a rather hot July day. No one was in a hurry and the conductor did a brisk business selling equally old-fashioned...