>>2020766Being a kid who had to move a lot with parents, I was always fascinated by commercial airliners. I spent many years in Japan and when I first saw the Shinkansen trains, in my mind they were like commercial airliners on rails - in fact for a while I thought they were somehow related. Technically they are, in the sense that the 0 series was built to resemble a plane
Ever since that, I always thought other high-speed trains around the world were a bit boring because they were missing the Shinkansen's, how should I put it, exciting seriousness. There's something about the philosophy behind the Shinkansen as a whole that I vastly prefer over other high speed rail.
