From: cfmpublic@ns.sympatico.ca
On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 03:06:43 +0000 (UTC), mroberds@att.net wrote:
>Jishnu Mukerji wrote:
>> I will be out in Berlin Germany in two weeks and made it a point to
>> get a German Railpass to get some ICE train riding under my belt.
>
>If it's like the one I had, it will also work for the S-Bahn in both
>Berlin and Munich. You may not *want* to use a day of your Railpass for
>that, but it's available.
>
>> In particular I will be riding the Berlin to Munich service which use
>> the tilting ICE-T sets.
>
>I rode that line with that equipment in late 2011. I recall it being
>very smooth. It's kind of neat to be able to stand up and drink a beer
>at something like 120 mph. The only odd thing I remember is that there
>were two stops very close together near Jena Paradies... I'd have to dig
>out my copy of the schedule to see exactly what they were; DB's current
>schedule doesn't show the close stop spacing that I remember.
>
>The only Amtrak train I've ridden at all recently was the Pacific
>Surfliner from Oceanside to Los Angeles in 2007, so I can't really make
>a useful comparison to the US.
>
>> And of course the Germans also have the additional advantage of both
>> allowing more banking and greater underbalance for high speed
>> operations than are allowed in the US.
For a good explanation of why European railroads allow this see
http://zierke.com/shasta_route.
Clark Morris
>
>If you have a smartphone / tablet / other device with a 3-axis
>accelerometer in it, it might be entertaining to see if you can set up
>an application that will display and log the data before you go. When
>I rode, there were displays in the train that would tell you the current
>train speed, and I think they may have also shown a map.
>
>Matt Roberds
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