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It's really not the same. Amtrak long distances are very different from actual economically viable passenger rail lines. It's mostly the people: no one who ride
by gomox 8y ago
It's really not the same. Amtrak long distances are very different from actual economically viable passenger rail lines. It's mostly the people: no one who rides Amtrak long distance does it because it's an efficient way of getting somewhere else. Precisely the reason why I think it's bound to go away.
The closest thing I did in Europe was Budapest-Zagreb on an old German IC-style train. 7 hours for 150 miles or something like that. Croatian border patrol hops on the train and leaves with your passport at a border crossing in the middle of nowhere.
I havent done the Transsiberian but that seems more similar to Amtrak than Western European trains.
- OldHand2018 8y agoI did Budapest to Zagreb once as well! Actually, we stopped for a few days in Siófok, so it didn't seem like such a long trip. A little over 10 years ago I took the overnight train with a sleeping berth from Berlin to Stockholm. The train rolled slowly up to the coast, onto a ship and crossed to Sweden. I would highly recommend it, except that it doesn't exist anymore. In fact Germany no longer have any "overnight-style" trains at all.
- germanier 8y agoThere still is a Berlin-Stockholm nigh train, just not so frequent. https://www.snalltaget.se/en/destinations/berlin https://www.snalltaget.se/en/destinations/berlin There are also still a few other overnight trains within Germany, just by a different operator. https://www.nightjet.com/en/ https://www.nightjet.com/en/