Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The problem is that high speed rail, everywhere in the world, except for Japan, and that too, only in the last few years, continues to lose money hand over fist. None of you will pay the ticket prices required to make such a network profitable, considering the investment and cost of continuous maintenance. Cheers Jayanand Sent from my iPad > On 20-Dec-2015, at 07:14, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > Interestingly forlorn and very sad in its own way, Ric. It's amazing how > the railways seem to have declined in the US compared to France, Germany, > Japan, and China. Nearly thirty years ago, I was whistling along at around > 300kph sitting in comfort heading from Paris to Valence via Lyon, and I > thought it would only get faster in the future. > > Ireland being such a small country, I'd like to see a major airport in the > centre of the country with maglev trains connecting the major cities. As > the centre is only about 160km from all major cities, they'd probably take > only 30 mins from start to stop, and be a tremendous boost to > international travellers and tourists. Nowadays, it looks like we'll have > to do a deal to import the tech from China rather than the US. However, > the political appetite for technology is limited, as all most of them know > about are apps to make ringtones :-) > > Douglas > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "RicCarter" <ric at cartersxrd.net> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; <leica at > freelists.org>; "A forum dedicated to the Picture-A-Week project" <paw at > micapeak.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2015 3:28 PM > Subject: [Leica] IMG: Cape Charles trains > > >> from a recent stop on the way back from baltimore >> >> <http://www.2015.cartersxrd.net/2015/Tracking_East/Entries/2015/12/19_Bay_Coast_RR.html> >> http://tinyurl.com/za6enty >> >> Ric Carter >> www.CartersXRd.net >> http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter >> >> The only razor I use is Occam?s. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information