Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relying on trucks

Re:Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relyi... by eigenspace on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:06AM (#43855241)

Here in Germany we very much have 'real rail', and every high speed long distance train has a dining car. Our trains have very high passenger counts too. I think the standard ICE-4 carries around 800-900 passengers depending on the number of carriages. The dining car takes up just one carriage and is a very nice addition to the train experience. The hot food is usually not the best, but it's better than nothing, and it's very nice to go grab a beer, coffee, or pastry and stretch your legs in the middle of a journey.

This is normal pretty much throughout europe on long distance trains. I know at the very least it's standard in Germany, France, Austria, and Italy. Maybe you're thinking of regional commuter trains that don't have dining cars?

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Re:Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relyi... by dfxm12 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:09AM (#43856614)

every high speed long distance train has a dining car

That you're using multiple qualifiers here suggests that these could still be exceptions.

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Re:Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relyi... by eigenspace on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:19AM (#43857314)

In Germany with Deutsche Bahn there are three classes of trains: Regional, Intercity, and Intercity Express.

Intercity Express is the high speed long distance train, and are the most common long distance trains by a long shot. They're the ones that have the dining cars. Regular Intercity trains usually don't have dining cars, but they're rather rare. I've still never actually ridden one because they're almost never used (since Intercity Express is so sucessful, and the Regional trains are fast enough for journeys of around 200km)

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Re:Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relyi... by chgs on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:45PM (#43862477)

And how many of those 800-900 actually eat in such a car, rather than collect something from the buffet and return to their seat.

95% of passengers are not sitting in a dining car watching the world go by in an Amtrak style experience.

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