Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Trains [was Re: Independence Day] Date: 19 Jul 2024 19:22:27 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <71ae8jdih7c3s6j4psqvm7jr9aumir7hl8@4ax.com> <8ee16417-f7ce-4a9e-cae0-e53ac5edea7e@example.net> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="25738"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1389 Evelyn C. Leeper 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."