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speeding_snail  ·  4549 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Montana to Michigan -How to travel 36 hours on a train and enjoy it.

I'll have to say, I do travel a lot by train since I attend university, but 36 hours sounds like a lot. The longest trip would have been 2,5 hours. But time spend with friends on the train is no wasted time.

As for international train travel in Europe (as seen by a Dutchman), it is different from inter state travel in the US. Most of the international trains from the Netherlands go to Germany, Belgium or France. Those trains are mostly high speed trains, so 3 hours Amsterdam - Paris is quite normal. I don't know about high speed trains in the US, but in Europe, we have and are building a high speed train system for quick national and international travel. Most of the so called "night train" routes were discontinued in the Netherlands around 2003 because of the rise of airplanes and high speed trains as more time and cost effective ways to get where you want. Some still exist, but there were more.