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:
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.
It is so frustrating that we don’t have high speed rail yet. The promises made to me as a kid were killed somewhere between the and now. I feel like Charlie Brown with a football…
My state had it all lined up and funded and everything decades ago, and a republican came in and scrapped the whole thing. For no good reason.
It would be operational by now and would have connected all the major urban areas in the region. 45 min trip instead of a 5 hour drive.
I will never not be salty about that. Because all we got instead are busses that take 4x as long as driving -and- cost a lot.
I’m thinking that a ‘German ICE train’ would not be overly popular these days
Although it’s a great way to sneak public transport past republicans
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.
(Pretty sure the joke is about an ICE train, as in trumps thugs, instead of ICE as in internal combustion engine)
Inter city express, just FYI.
Noooo! The third option!
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…)
