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[QUOTE]Originally posted by irishchieftain: [QB] My first bona-fide intercity train ride was from Limerick to Dublin (in Ireland). No direct rail service available on the day I traveled; had to change trains at Limerick Junction. Locomotive was an 071-class EMD JT22CW built in LaGrange, IL (AAR C-C wheel arrangement, 12-645E3C with 2450 horsepower), and cars were BREL Mark IID modified stock, Ireland's first air-conditioned passenger cars (and that's saying a lot, considering Ireland's depressed past). In the USA, my longest rail trip was on the Sunset Limited, from Tempe AZ to St. Louis MO. Was rather dismayed by the disparity in operating speeds between the NEC and these western rails. I had traveled on the NEC before, between NWK and WAS, and once you experience that, it makes no sense from a subjective POV that the rest of rail travel around the USA is not exactly like that in terms of speed of operation. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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