XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/22/2014 4:19 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , Thomas Koenig   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Robert Bannister  schrieb:   
   >>   
   >>> Much of the rail system goes down the   
   >>> middle of two of our freeways, and when you're stuck in the traffic it   
   >>> is quite annoying to see a train go whizzing past.   
   >>   
   >> Trains are a good alternative for some routes in Germany.  Germany,   
   >> being a fairly densly popoulated country, has a reasonably dense   
   >> rail network.   
   >>   
   >> The ICE 3 trains between Cologne and Frankfurt airport are quite   
   >> fast, up to 300 km/h (185 mph).  They run parallel to the Autobahn,   
   >> and you cannot hope to pass them in a car, even if there is   
   >> no traffic jam :-)   
   >   
   > Two words: Bugatti Veyron.  ;-)   
   >   
   > Ugly as sin, but fast ... of course you would need to stop to refuel it   
   > every 50 metres, which means the train still gets there first.  :-)   
   >   
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