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Back in 1993 Amtrak ran trial runs with European high-speed trains, Sweden's X2000 and Germany's ICE, here is a well made documentary about the event. (youtu.be)
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The X2000 power car is still in daily use here in Sweden, it has a commemorative plaque above the driver's door.

Here is also a compilation of contemporary news footage about the event:

https://youtu.be/nHEtxi5bQk0

I find it really interesting how positive everyone was, the general hope for the future shown in the news footage is awesome.

Also I can't be the only one missing the upbeat synth music in the reports showing off modern/future technology in the 90s.

Anyway, in these annoying times when politicians constantly explain how it is impossible to do better, these videos shows a time when it was exciting to try and do better.

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[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm thinking that a 'German ICE train' would not be overly popular these days

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

America wants France’s TGV or Japan’s Shinkansen.

JR Central is supposedly building regional lines in Texas which will use the N700S units (the bog standard Shinkansen, but magic to everyone who hasn’t ridden one), but I don’t know if that is progressing right now or not.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

(Pretty sure the joke is about an ICE train, as in trumps thugs, instead of ICE as in internal combustion engine)

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Inter city express, just FYI.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Noooo! The third option!

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Although it’s a great way to sneak public transport past republicans

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago

My experience with ICE isn't great. It has reliability issues, I got stuck several times because of technical issues, it happened to me 3 or 4 times they had to literally reboot the train 🤣. Also, the comfort is not great, I have a soar butt after 1 hour sitting there. The French TGV is much better, or at least I have experienced a much lower failure rate (with the train itself, don't get me started on SNCF...)