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Denzel Washington is awesome as the veteran railroader.

This could be extremely dangerous for a visually impaired person. They would not know that the door was not aligned with the platform.

Thank you. I missed the small print.

I vaguely remember exploring travel in Austria and being able to select exact seats on railjet trains. I have done test pass-holder tickets, and it appears that I am just assigned a seat. Am I missing something here?

I would start by trying to compare the trips that you took and did not feel nausea with the trips that you did feel nausea. Were you riding forward or backward? Were you sitting next to a window? Were different classes of trains involved? IIRC, some of these trains have tilting mechanisms...

I remember a ride on Amtrak in the early 80s when I was a sophomore in high school. My father and I rode coach on the Crescent from New Orleans to New York City. A drunk preacher went on in Philadelphia and sat in our car. He started his sermon, and my dad mumbled and complained. I focused...

I have always had a dislike for Naperville, IL, in the United States. I had a terrible experience there as a student teacher. The cooperating teacher said I would never make it as a teacher and made my time there miserable. This is the first stop on the California Zephyr and Southwest Chief...

In August of 2021, I boarded the Glacier Express in Chur. We were informed that we would be bussed for a portion of the route. It was raining. Then about 20 minutes later it was announced there would be no bus ride. I was relieved. So it is possible for something to go wrong, but not...

Do they still have the book a bed ahead offices for booking B&B's? I used that and pretty good experiences in 1988.

I would think going north from Carlisle and doing the trip in the reverse would ensure that the best parts are seen in daylight.

My suspicion would be that later services would be busy, or that a cancellation would occur causing me to not be able to travel.

I live here and imho the USA is rapidly becoming a 3rd world country.

Thank you for the information. This helps me. How safe is it to get around Palermo? Is it possible to use uber there? Anything I should be aware of besides the usual risks of any large city?

I am looking at traveling around Italy on the train. I am interested in routes that I believe are not traveled so much by tourists. The first is from Milan to Lecce. The second would be South of Naples heading towards Sicily. My question: If I am booking FRECCIAROSSa, Frecciargento, or...

I had an interesting experience on the train to Sorrento. I was traveling with my father in the early 2000's. He got on the train and then a guy put his hand on the side of the train to block me from getting on. I was fearful of getting separated, so I countered his aggression with aggression...

In the United States, I was riding the Acela in the quiet car. We stopped in Baltimore and a lady got on and continued a phone conversation that had started while she was on the platform. The conductor came through and scolded her and told her to go stand in the area between cars to finish the...

In 1988 I enjoyed breakfast in the restaurant car while traveling from Glasgow to Crewe. I also had an excellent dinner in the restaurant car on the line between Penzance and London. I remember eating Yorkshire pudding.

I agree that I underestimated the number of carriages involved. In some ways the train system in the UK operates on the scale of a subway system and the large scale of operations makes it difficult pay for the staff to ensure safety and meet other needs of passengers.

That is a similar problem here in the United States. It would be interesting if it was possible to publicly post videos of people misbehaving on trains.

In the United States Amtrak addresses this behavior through frequent announcements and people have been put off the train for ASB and not following directions of the crew. It might help that on the overnight routes there is often a 24 wait for the next day's train if one is put off. Drunk...