Taylor Kurosaki
YogthosAmerican journalist discovers a train
Ángela Stella MatutinaYou'd think they would have registered the Atocha and London bombings, obsessed as they are with terrorism.
OpenDNA⚙️@angelastella @yogthos @Edgecontrol Different generation. Obsessing about terrorism is as cringe as obsessing about Soviet agents.
It's almost unpatriotic: We won the War on Terror!
@opendna @yogthos @Edgecontrol
Oh, of course, "right wing terrorist" is a slur, an insult upon that brave country.
Elon Musk stick@opendna @angelastella @yogthos @Edgecontrol don’t forget the war on drugs
And Christmas
@masterdon @opendna @yogthos @Edgecontrol
Thanks God they won the War on Poverty!
ekstromenator@yogthos To start and finish in the city must be the best feature with travel by train. By those comments a-bow by journalist is also preferable ant time-saving.
Dominique Julia@yogthos @Smokescreen Often easy to work with laptop at business trips also.
jrg@yogthos Our rail system sucks. 😞
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@jrg @yogthos In the before times my wife used to do regular business trips to the USA. She never hired a car, she always used public transport.
"But you can't get here from there by public transport!" the people she was visiting would say. "Oh yes you can, this train then this bus." "But ... *poor* people ride those trains and buses!!"
Where "poor", she worked out, was how they were warning her that she might encounter "black" people on the journey.
@yogthos @TimWardCam I take public transportation whenever I can. Especially to get downtown. It is a shame people still have that mentality. Personally I think the el is the best representation of my city.
Niclas HedhmanShanghai-Beijing is over 1000km in a straight line. Yet, I always (4-5 times) took the ~5 hours (I think in the beginning it was 4.5 hours) train, rather than the hassle (and waiting) of airports and crammed space on plane.
With 230V in the wide and comfortable seat, self-service of coffee when I need refill and splendid view (if Business class at front window), flights simply can't compete.
LisPi@lispi314 oh yeah rail transit in Canada is absolute shit, and largely for the same reasons as well
Alexander The 1st@yogthos @lispi314 I don't have much experience with our rail service, but having been using TransLink for years, their skytrain is amazing.
And made me double-take at the "$160 one-way trip from Netherlands to France" the article writer took.
Especially since a cursory check saw it as double the price one-way, and double the time, of an airline flight.
Andreas K@AT1ST @yogthos @lispi314 The Skytrain is a more or less local mass transit system.
These high speed trains are long distance inter city public transport.
Anyway, I once missed my night train on a Friday (it was that week in Europe when the yearly train schedules change, and the train was moved an hour earlier).
I decided to go home via "regional" trains, it took me almost 24h for 900km, and I was rather beat for the weekend.
Todd Hensley@yogthos flying used to be like that too.
sijt@yogthos the author’s name is T Rains. This has to be a joke?
lia
Damian@yogthos What is this sorcery?!! 😱🚄
Billy SmithTrains with safety features that work! :D
June (derogatory) 🖤🏳️⚧️@yogthos it’s uhh… it’s *this* easy? 
Orange Lantern@Fawn_Over_Fun @yogthos Basically, yes. Pricing can be a bit confusing at times but there is usually an app for that.
ldcolton@yogthos Go easy on them, we aren't allowed to have nice things like decent mass transit here.
CarlRJ
The Doctor@yogthos Next up, a bunch of articles about why trains are bad actually and will never catch on.
Marco
StarkCan't wait until they discover health care
@yogthos That‘s kinda funny. ^^
Luna Macrosystems✡️🤖🏳️⚧️@yogthos it's extra funny because that's also how Acela works lol
Haelwenn /элвэн/ 
arkywarky
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@lanodan @yogthos Aptonym of the year!
Doesn't look like a spoof, previous 3 years of articles are columns about various flights, behind-the-scenes reports, reports on developments in the airline industry etc.
www.businessinsider.com/author…
Doesn't look like a spoof, previous 3 years of articles are columns about various flights, behind-the-scenes reports, reports on developments in the airline industry etc.
www.businessinsider.com/author…
Taylor Rains - Insider
Taylor is an aviation reporter on the Visual Features team focused on all things aircraft and airlines. Before joining Insider, Taylor worked for several companies in the aviation industry, including Southwest and Allegiant. She got her start in journalism in 2019 when she began writing for FlyerTalk but most recently served as a reporter for AirlineGeeks. Taylor received her B.S. in Aviation Management from Florida Institute of Technology and is passionate about airplanes and travel. Her favorite countries to visit are the Netherlands and Scotland, and she has been to all 7 continents. You can follow Taylor on Twitter and Instagram (@trains_onplanes). She can be reached at [email protected].
Skunk スカンク@yogthos Train service in the US is a huge mess.
eviloatmeal, resident Death Stranding 2 apologist (arch, btw)@yogthos To be fair, trains are almost magical. (Check back in next week, I'm have some more trains, maybe my opinion will have changed.)
murks@yogthos He prefers the transport without security checks, he must have something to hide.
MOVING
Stuart Marks
Duncan MacGregor@stuartmarks @yogthos @anildash coming from UK / Europe and experiencing American trains is equally odd. “Wait, I have to be at the station _this_ early and I can’t even get on the platform, let alone the train?”
@aardvark179 @yogthos @anildash Yes, even Americans find the Amtrak boarding procedure to be ridiculous. See this article:
https://www.vox.com/2014/3/31/5563600/everything-you-need-to-know-about-boarding-an-amtrak-train
It’s rather old but much still seems valid according to current Amtrak info:
Flüpke@yogthos Fediverse discovers a Twitter user discovering a journalist discovering trains.
Context: https://twitter.com/juanbuis/status/1629072189956804609
@fluepke I've minded this gem from reddit I'll have you know :) https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageImperialism/comments/11cb3ba/american_journalist_discovers_a_train/
Leigh Garland@yogthos Amsterdam to Paris really isn't that far... Wait until the author realizes you can actually get all the way to China from Venice. Or that the London to Paris line goes "under the sea!" 🤿
Le Chep@toychicken @yogthos London to Paris is actually closer and shorter than from Amsterdam, even including the airline-style crap at St P/GdN
@maybeabattist@yogthos How simple thi gs can be 😂
kabo@yogthos
Yeah, for short distances like that. About the same distance as Dallas - San Antonio.
Yeah, for short distances like that. About the same distance as Dallas - San Antonio.
Ivan Ruiz 
Tournesol 🌻@yogthos he fact that trains can be a reason of debate is so strange to me 
SimonProD@yogthos imagine the journalist coming to experience Japanese high speed trains...
@SimonProD @yogthos the one pictured looks to be Thalys, from the logo - already pretty high speed.
Jay 🆘@donmelton @yogthos For context, in the first paragraph, she says she is “an aviation writer”:
“As an aviation writer, I rarely find myself traveling via train between countries — even if it is sometimes faster than flying.”
Kinda relevant
Andy 
#RIPYassie@yogthos I'm looking forward to discovering the heck out of them this summer.
Heliomass
Hugh Ferguson@yogthos the aviation lobby in North America will do absolutely ANYTHING to prevent any real fast or efficient passenger rail from being built.
alarig
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@yogthos That's not even 'one of Europe's fastest'. 😅