At 6:46 AM -0500 10/29/98, Brown, R Ken wrote:
problem. On trains, unlike planes, you keep your luggage with you.
Also people *like* trains. They are cute. Even in America you have hordes of trainspotters and steam enthusiasts and model-builders and all the rest. It always amazes me that bookshops have more shelves of hobbyist books about trains than about cars, but only about 15% of the population regularly travel by train and about 60% by car. (In England - I guess in the USA that's more like 5% and 85% - and before you say that
That actually may be the reason. I have traveled a good deal on both trains, by Auto, and by bicycle, and well, Trains suck. Cars suck slightly less (execpt in a few cases). It is easiest to get romantic about something you don't have to fight with on a regular basis. Ken Brown
(who prefers bicycles to trains but had to use the train to get to work today because of a broken spoke he is incapable of fixing. He only does software)
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