Cheap Train Travel

doubtingthomas asked:


Where to buy the tickets in Singapore?

Any websites?

How long is the journey?

Please help

Amy L asked:


Privitize? Increased funding? Europeans are way, way ahead of us on this one, and since federal allocations are about the same as they were 25 years ago they’re going to stay ahead. Next years’ budget is facing a $500 million cut.

Trains use 1/5 less energy than cars or planes and usually can run in poor weather. In a global warming world, it seems we should encourage this mode of travel.

What can we do to bring America’s train travel into the 21st century?
I read the article in Parade, that’s what got me thinking. I haven’t used Amtrak much lately, except for a few short trips. But I’ve taken it coast-to-coast, enjoyed it, and it seems like we’ve got to reinvigorate the process to bring ourselves up to speed, so to speak.

Jack Duluoz: Satori in Paris asked:


Train Station Mantra

Hubbling station,
Selling wares and life
Transported to and fro.
Swamped and stifled
People coughing in the nicotine haze,
Pipes and cigarettes
Hanging out of puffed cracked lips.
Dull eyes watch the line of passerby’s
Trudge past in the same fluid motion
To be stamped and approved
For Transportation.
Rows upon rows of bottomless gum-grimed benches,
With carvings of lover’s names
And so and someone was here in 98’.
Suspicious bystanders
Brood by beneath the Christian mosaic
The brand new American frontier,
The great railway of the elite and poverty-stricken,
The Indians stand in the back of this,
Solemn silent chained,
By the Western shackles of exploration ambition.
Amtrak bus
Countryside wheeling about in a furious frenzy
Freeway humming and bustling, a hub of activity
Sirens flashing seizure points
Ambulance screaming sorrowfully past my window
And the world continues on.
Mid morn is reached below the overhead pass of Stockton
Country freeway melts into the city life,
Streetlights handing out stops and go’s
To cops and processional traffic.
Dropped off at Stockton train station
The paint is chipped aging
And embroidered with barb wire.
Packing feet scuffling dusty swept sombrero spackled grime tile floors
Searching about for a place to smoke before the next train,
The smoke of their mouths
Mingles with the smoke that covers the valley
While bus drivers puff wildly and bloodshot
Reminiscing.
The sun shines a sickly orange-red through the bonfire haze
Plastering the faces in sweat and tribal paint,
Old couples gasp and strain
Luggage carts lumber down the loading dock.
Across the tracks is a neighborhood,
A world of its own.
Men and women stare blankly back from behind
The steel-linked fence that divides the masses.
Speakers blaring, train is on its way!
Lumbering in at 52 mph
A lurching behemoth of steel.
Tickets out, show the man in uniform you belong,
Leather and suede blue seats
Row and rows separated by human ambition
And loneliness.
Bound for Modesto,
Roaring and smoking great torrents of blackening electrical current hurricanes
Sweeping up trash and aluminum cans,
Great wheels spinning
Creating a man-wrought vortex of sound
Spinning dizzily past the backside of America.
Burnt-out farm stead
Exploded automobiles burnt and rusted over neglected
Resemble the shattered shell of American pride,
A far cry from the Imperialistic Empire of the last century.
Barbed wire fences hide rough scarred men
Smudged and greased over in blue uniforms
Playing hand-ball against the sooty wall pock-marked by misuse
For a drunken lunch hour,
Tractors blazing down the road
In furious robotic fever-pitched frenzy,
Old dried up neighborhoods
Of 1950s finest is now the slum lord’s throne,
Broken window panes
And shattered glass
Show smiling sagging toothless houses
And withered farmland.
America, I’ve seen the ugly side
Of your fair skin,
It’s botched and cracked down the middle by the strain of
The pounding of a million tired souls,
All muttering and swearing
To the same train mantra.

andy50005 asked:


does the union pacific refrigeration train , seattle to newyork 5 day journey , go non - stop. ie is there multiple train drivers on the same train taking shifts while the others sleep on the train. Or does the train stop overnight while letting the driver sleep and the refrigeration units still going?

Truth_or_Dare asked:


Next year, I’ll be going on a 5 hour journey, but I want to know how I should pass the time. It’s on a train if that helps.

BlackCup asked:


I’m aware that smoking is now in theory banned at all train stations, even if the platform is open-air with no walls or covering (which frankly seems rediculous to me).

In a weeks time I’m going on a roughly 8 hour train journey which entails about 3 or 4 stops, and at one point having to wait about an hour for a connecting train.

As far as I am aware, you are not able to leave the station if it is not your destination, even if you are waiting for a connecting train. So I can’t go for a cigarette outside.

What are my chances of being picked-up on having a quick *** on the platform? Also, if I am spotted, what are the consequences likely to be? Simply asked to put it out, is a fine likely?

Thanks

Luisardo asked:


And travelling near cities for a two week trip I’m planning.

Eurorail pass (I’m from America)? Bus? Train at night?

paulmurphy42 asked:


1 What is the fastest train journey in the UK?
2 What is the longest nonstop railway run in the world?
3 What is the fastest regular railway run in the world?

Thanks,

Paul.

dirtyhippy65 asked:


I always find this complaint about americans funny especially from Europeans. I mean it must be so easy to travel to other countries in Europe you’re surrounded by tons of them and it isn’t that far to travel to them. North America is basically (excluding the Caribbean) three countries. We are over 3,000 miles from europe. America is huge and not alot of people have the money to travel that far. I know everyone should travel but its not exactly like hopping on the nearest train and going to the country next door for the weekend.
In the reference to America is huge part I am talking about there is a lot to see in this country. We got deserts, swamps, plains, mountains, and forests. I haven’t traveled west of the mississippi river in years!
Also, if we want to travel to another country we have to find time off from our jobs. Going to mexico , the Caribbean, or if you’re completely out of options Canada (;) just kidding our neighbors to the north) it isn’t worth it for a weekend trip we need a week at least and that can be hard for alot of people to find.

go_to_girl asked:


ever traveled on a bus? I equate riding the bus with nightmares from my youth!In no way possible can this be fun, but I am trying to keep an open mind. I already have 2 chickens and a small pig packed for the trip. Alright it might not be that bad, but I can’t imagine it would be that good. I am shooting for a train as an alternative anyone do that?
Okay, okay I am not really taking a pig and some chickens on the bus. It was crude humor relating to buses in third world countries, which I have ridden on next to a goat! Traveling on the bus in the States I am just kind of worried what type of “goat” I would have to sit near!