Riding The Rails

For God's sake, why can't we have a fast train in this country? It's not the Middle Ages anymore.


Train travel tips, finest kind.
http://www.squidoo.com/riding-the-rails

What is the best form of travel?

Modern travel methods in the United States include the headache of the airlines, the hassle of driving, and the torture of bus riding, leaving the only viable method Amtrak trains.  The worst problem is speed as Amtrak likes to poke along slowly; while its best asset is the relaxed atmosphere and the view. It is no plastic coffin in the sky, with passengers jammed in like grains of sand in an hourglass.  And it is not a smelly uncomfortable bus ride.  What it is is sublime to ghetto, all in one trip, is what it is.
http://www.helium.com/items/2257728-amtrak-train-travel

Making high-speed rail a viable solution

High speed trains should have been a fixture in the United States years ago. Now that the government is offering more incentives for this purpose, there is no reason not to. The United States is the only highly civilized country that has no high speed trains. The reasons for this are political and corporate in nature. The low- level hostility between Amtrak staff and passengers trickles right on up through the channels of governmental and corporate entities.
http://www.helium.com/items/2258137-making-high-speed-rail-a-viable-solution

Tips for traveling the US by train

Train travel is absolutely lovely at its best; at its worst, it is a tortured ride through hell, Amtrak hell that is.  Trains are the only viable alternative to flying, which is another tortured ride through hell, first shaken down by security, then jammed into a plastic cattle car with nowhere to run.  At the very least on a train, it is possible to go for a walk; and survival is statistically more possible when crashing from ground level.   There are a few things you can do to be prepared for the train trip.
http://www.helium.com/items/2258791-tips-for-traveling-by-train