The Absurd Love of Train Travel.

Europhile affectation does not apply to the US.

Just saw this:

Unless you want to spend 46 hours in a train for the sake of being in a train, this is an absurd way of long-distance transportation.

Let’s see driving times:

Add 10 extra hours for pee and food stops plus an overnight stay at a hotel and you still do the trip 16 hours faster.

And if you are in a hurry?

People still do not understand the vastness of this country, even those living here. Europeans lose their minds when distance and time comparisons are brought into the discussion.

Europ does have an advanced railway passenger system compared to the US, but taking the equivalent Chicago-Miami trip would pretty much send them across trhe whole European continent, basically from Spain to Ukraine.

I believe everybody should take a train trip once just for experience. I had mine in the 80s in Spain and was memorable: one of the engines caught on fire leaving us stranded in the middle of nowhere just outside Madrid and we arrived at our destination about 8 hours later than scheduled.

Been driving and flying ever since.

I will probably take one more train ride, but it will be one of those old-timey tour things with an honest to God steam engine through a picturesque countryside and dropping us back where we parker our car.