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Re:Crossing the USA by Train by thfuran on Sunday October 27, 2024 @08:42PM (#41966867)
With that tight of a schedule, international flights will screw you fairly often too. That's just not enough slack for robustness.
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Re:Crossing the USA by Train by casenmgreen on Monday October 28, 2024 @03:46AM (#41968620)
The problem is that the distance to be covered is long, and the train is relatively slow.

I left early in the morning to get to Paris in time for the train, and that was the only train that day, and that train left early because it had a long way to go.

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Re:Crossing the USA by Train by casenmgreen on Monday October 28, 2024 @04:45AM (#41968933)
With a flight, normally I can go directly from where I am to where I wish to be.

It's a single hop.

With a train, when I'm travelling across multiple countries, necessarily I will take multiple trains; which then brings the problem of missed connections.

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