From: jishnu@nospam.verizon.net
On 6/5/2015 11:06 PM, 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.
Indeed! My Railpass is a 4 days in a month pass. I do not want to
consume any of its days just to ride the S-Bahn. I am using all four
days for longer distance and thus more expensive (if purchased
separately) trips, including a day trip into Poland (It is a
Germany-Poland Pass).
For local travel I will buy a zone ABC weekly pass which is very
reasonably priced. And then for the additional day I will use a
Tageskarte. On the final day I will just use a single journey ticket to
get to Tegel from Alexanderplatz on the TXL Express Bus.
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>> 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.
Yes I do have two very good recording apps on my iPhone. I will use one
of them to record. I have recording from a ride on the TGV Est from
Paris to Mulhouse (before that particular service got moved to the LGV
Rhine-Rhone upon its completion) at 200mph. It was pretty amazing.
/J
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