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Here's where we changed engines from electric to steam -- Narbonne -- for the journey to the Spanish border. The stretch with steam...

Far south of Paris in March 1970 heading toward the Pyrenees from Narbonne.

It looks like the Etangs de Mer on the coastal line between Montpellier and Perpignan. Look for the station called "Leucate la...

I hear you Chris! Some of the Canadian Border people( my Canadian friends and family always said that the female ones were the...

That is what I have seen and heard as well, including the funding/rescinding issues mentioned by @Tlcooper44, and the delays/inflation...

It’s hard to look at a project like this - a pair of cities where true 350kph HSR makes absolutely perfect sense in every possible way -...

From what I've garner, about half of the money has been spent on lawsuits dealing with opposition from acquiring land to construct the...

You have to wonder if the same amount of money (probably less) had been invested in higher speed rail SFO - LAX - SAN on existing tracks...

I don't think there is a shelf to buy off. Siemens Velaro is by definition variable in terms of width and height. Every one of the...

Traveling in 1972 has more in common with 1954 than it does with 2024. I've had tedious and annoying entries into the US, but that's...

The conditions of the Schengen agreement do allow countries to temporarily re-instate border checks if they have a good reason. The...

I was looking at the US Stae Department travel website yesterday, and it said the Norway and Switzerland were part of the Schengen area...

You can tell its been awhile since I've traveled abroad!( since before COVID) But the biggest hassles I ever had crossing borders was...

Brexit made no difference to passport checks. When the UK was in the EU, it was in one common area with continental Europe for Customs...

Yes they used shunters, steam and then later diesel. An alternative method if you didn't want to use shunters would have been to use a...