> of a DMV waiting room seat. The airlines (minus > the budget carriers) have put a lot of attention > to creating comfortable seat designs and > unfortunately that has not transferred over to > rail. That's …

Ended up on Pan AM into Tegel and then an illegal [I found out later] ride on the U-BAHN line that skirted through East Berlin to get to Tempelhof. What a memory to dig up. Saw duty train laying over …

and regional services of Die Bahn (the latter for semi-historical equipment standardisation reasons) is using EMUs almost exclusively. That should tell you something about what the real-world railway …

The only railway that is not electrified is the "Brienzer Rothorn Bahn", a cog railway which climbs the mountain which is called "Brienzer Rohthort" (surprise ;-) .

> Main-Neckar-bahn south to Mannheim, and on to > Basel, Switzerland. But such lines are not typical for Germany. Especially the Rhein River lines are paralleled by a new high speed line Frankfurt - …

In terms of scale, BART is very much like the S-Bahn systems in Germany, which in my opinion have seating much more appropriate for journey times of up to an hour.

Caltrain extension receives FTA approval Date: 2/10/2005 8:35:24 AM Pacific Standard Time SAN FRANCISCO -- The Transbay Terminal / Caltrain Downtown Extension / Redevelopment Project …