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Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 20:16:19 No.1255624 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1255633 >>1257821 >>1257832 >>1257933

On the Acela first class now.

>shakes more than an airplane in turbulence
>wifi is slower than molasses
>seats and cabin are old and dirty

Why did I pay over $300 for this when I could have flown instead?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 20:20:14 No.1255625 Report

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Because you're a foamer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 20:21:40 No.1255626 Report

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You don't have to take your shoes off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 20:24:10 No.1255627 Report

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At least on the plus side the staff are nice and friendly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 20:40:52 No.1255633 Report

Quoted By: >>1255635 >>1258060

>>1255624
You can bring your own booze.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 20:44:53 No.1255635 Report

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>>1255633
Hmm, true. But they do provide booze here too. Service is just a bit slow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 20:57:01 No.1255636 Report

Quoted By: >>1255645

Because you can use the internet the whole time, and you can go straight from the middle of manhattan to the middle of washington without dealing with traffic, security, or checking in
>wifi
>2018
There's something wrong with you

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 21:19:48 No.1255645 Report

Quoted By: >>1255647

>>1255636
>using data for 3.5h

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 21:23:38 No.1255647 Report

Quoted By: >>1255648

>>1255645
Why would that be a problem?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 21:26:41 No.1255648 Report

Quoted By: >>1255652

>>1255647
1080p resolution takes ~1.5gb/h
unless you have an unlimited plan that'll eat your data in a hurry

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 21:31:06 No.1255652 Report

Quoted By: >>1255656

>>1255648
If you plan on watching movies you can just tap the little down arrow next to the item and it will cache it on your device while you're on your home wifi. I do that before overseas trips, load up a couple of hours of mindless shit, knocks me right out.

For a short ride to DC I'm probably doing emails and stuff the whole time anyway, so it's kinda pointless.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 21:35:41 No.1255656 Report

Quoted By: >>1255665

>>1255652
I'm usually streaming news when commuting, but I take commuter rail that has good wifi

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 22:56:40 No.1255665 Report

Quoted By: >>1255666 >>1257959

>>1255656
Video news? How can you stand that garbage? Aside from all the ads, 90% of the time is just ad libbed "analysis" based on whatever scrolls across their teleprompter, it's a huge amount of noise for a very small amount of information.

I browse WaPo, NYTimes, the Economist, and Reuters if I'm just killing time consuming news on the road.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 22:58:02 No.1255666 Report

Quoted By: >>1255691

>>1255665
C-SPAN is based and redpilled.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Nov 2018 23:14:17 No.1255673 Report

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since hwen is a fucken cheese & fruit plate an entree?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 00:00:31 No.1255691 Report

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>>1255666
Well well well. Satan is a Federal contractor or a lobbyist based in New York who commutes to his DC office to shake down the people of the United States and watches C-Span while en route to inform his business decisions.

At least you're not that loudmouth in the quiet car who has to yap on his cell phone about how he just got out of a meeting with {some senator/the white house/the pentagon} so everyone knows what a Big Deal he is. Or if you are, please understand nobody is impressed and everyone hates you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 17:37:03 No.1257821 Report

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>>1255624
>On the Acela first class now.
>>shakes more than an airplane in turbulence
QUALITY of American railroad

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 17:51:06 No.1257832 Report

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>>1255624
>On the Acela first class now.
>>shakes more than an airplane in turbulence
Never had this issue. I don't think that US railroads are any better than Russian roads that weren't serviced since 1990.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 23:54:01 No.1257921 Report

Quoted By: >>1258044

I find HSR in general to be rather shakey, certainly more than a plane. I'd say it compares to, say, light to medium tier turbulence. HSR at 300 km/h shakes about as much as a regular train at ~120 on normal lines with good to mediocre maintenance. At least from my experience in Spain and France.

OTOH it's a comfy shaking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 00:16:37 No.1257933 Report

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>>1255624
>Expect ACELA to run as smoothly as the shinkansen
with that infrastructure you're dreaming pal, not to mention the horrid FRA abomination that Acela coaches are.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 01:22:07 No.1257953 Report

Quoted By: >>1257954

>why is my 1930s-tier infrastructure bad?
I don't know OP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 01:28:19 No.1257954 Report

Quoted By: >>1257955 >>1258055

>>1257953
>1930s prr
>As bad as modern NEC amtrak
0/10

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 01:45:51 No.1257955 Report

Quoted By: >>1257957

>>1257954
The NEC out of NY literally begins with crossing a bridge that predates the 1930s.

Portal Bridge
Inaugurated: 1910
> In extreme cases, rail crews must bang the rails into place with sledgehammers before trains can cross.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 02:06:59 No.1257957 Report

Quoted By: >>1258055

>>1257955
>Reading compression
I'm saying that the NEC is sub 1930s standards

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 02:12:02 No.1257959 Report

Quoted By: >>1257961 >>1258045

>>1255665
>WaPo, NYTimes, the Economist

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 02:15:33 No.1257961 Report

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>>1257959
This is a good one, saved.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 13:03:22 No.1258044 Report

Quoted By: >>1258047

>>1257921
Are you talking about CRH or Talgo trains

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 13:04:55 No.1258045 Report

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>>1257959
Fortunately /pol/ is a nsfw board that would soon be parted from us

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 13:30:17 No.1258047 Report

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>>1258044
CRH?
In any case, you referring to HS trains? Ive used Talgo, Siemens and Alstom trains afaik, and my experience was similar on all of them

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 14:27:45 No.1258055 Report

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>>1257954
The 1930s PRR (infrastructure) *is* modern NEC Amtrak.

>>1257957
Yeah, because it was new back then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Nov 2018 15:07:24 No.1258060 Report

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>>1255633

>he doesn't stealthily create his own cocktails with the nips he brought on the plane

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