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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article <52e0c96f$0$52806$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, dtravel@sonic.net   
   says...   
   >   
   > 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.  :-)   
   > >   
   > Just don't car pool with Jeremy Clarkson.   
      
   Who raced the train from London to Milan and came close to beating it,   
   with a Ford Mustang.  If he had been driving a Veyron he might have won.   
      
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