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  On a train from Seattle to Los Angeles, they learned what the road cannot teach: intimacy with strangers, the weight of history, and the beauty of time slowed down. Coast Starlight, from downtown Seattle to the Art Deco terminus in Los Angeles.  https://www.thefp.com/p/chris-rufo-why-my-sons-and-i-take-the-train https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/travel/fall-foliage-train-rides-europe.html Chris Rufo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Rufo

  Rälsen dras i luften på höga pelare. Statsminister Ulf Kristersson har beskrivit snabbtåg Stockholm-Oslo som ”en mycket bättre idé i grunden” än de numera skrotade planerna på nya stambanor Stockholm-Göteborg-Malmö.  DN 15 maj 2025 https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/har-planeras-for-sveriges-forsta-jarnvag-pa-pelare-i-luften/ Tåg i Schweiz https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2017/01/tag-i-schweiz.html See inside a 155 mph sleeper train  connecting Hong Kong and Beijing https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/09/travel/video/sleeper-train-hong-kong-china-connection-digvid

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  A $59.3 billion magnetic-levitation train that will run at 500 kilometers an hour and eventually connect Tokyo and Osaka in just over 60 minutes. Kawakatsu has refused to allow construction in his region After a gaffe in which he called public servants “highly intelligent, unlike people who sell vegetables, or take care of cows,” Kawakatsu is now set to resign in June amid anger from his constituents. (Stockholmare är smartare...) Formally known as the Chuo Shinkansen, it is Japan’s most ambitious construction project, a dream that has captivated tetsu-ota, or train nerds, for decades.  First envisioned in the 1970s, the maglev — which uses superconducting magnets to levitate the train about four inches (10 centimeters) off the track — hearkens back to the building of the first bullet train, an all-hands project that can demonstrate Japanese ingenuity to the world. Bloomberg 5 april 2024 https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-04/japan-s-maglev-project-can-prevail...