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What exactly is the breakdown of responsibility between the engineer and the conductor? I get it that the conductor is in charge of everything relating to passengers, but does he or she also have to be qualified on the line? Who communicates with the dispatcher? If it's the conductor who gets...

I'm on the Thalys headed from Schiphol to Paris now. Just went through an enormous tunnel outside Leiden. Does anyone know the point of that tunnel? The train is going through flat farmland and it seems a very odd place to build a very long tunnel.

They said they found 3 "sun bows;" the rails had gotten so hot that they had twisted out of shape. Train waited in Vernon, Vt. for I don't know how long. I waited for about three hours before I hitched a ride to WRJ. (1) I thought they just redid the rails on the Vermonter route (2) it wasn't...