Comment on Back in 1993 Amtrak ran trial runs with European high-speed trains, Sweden's X2000 and Germany's ICE, here is a well made documentary about the event.

DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Although it’s a great way to sneak public transport past republicans

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  America wants France’s TGV or Japan’s Shinkansen.

  JR Central is supposedly building regional lines in Texas which will use the N700S units (the bog standard Shinkansen, but magic to everyone who hasn’t ridden one), but I don’t know if that is progressing right now or not.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    (Pretty sure the joke is about ICE as in trumps thugs instead of ICE as in internal combustion engine)

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Inter city express, just FYI.

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Noooo!

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• synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My experience with ICE isn’t great. It has reliability issues, I got stuck several times because of technical issues, it happened to me 3 or 4 times they had to literally reboot the train 🤣. Also, the comfort is not great, I have a soar butt after 1 hour sitting there. The French TGV is much better, or at least I have experienced a much lower failure rate (with the train itself, don’t get me started on SNCF…)

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