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.   
      
   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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