From: "John Beamish" 

How long did that take?!?!

You should get one/more of them to describe the trip here.  We can always
use fresh bloo^h^h^h^h points of view.

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:01:33 -0400, Adam field.near the bridge">
 wrote:

> John Beamish wrote:
>> Online?  Wow!  Wonder what V would say if a discreet package ever
>> arrived in our mailbox :-D
>>
>> As for the trains ... for quite a few years, the vista dome cars on VIA
>> 1 (The Transcontinental) went through the Rockies in the middle of the
>> night.  Yup - middle of the night.  Passengers represent trivial revenue
>> to the railways compared to freight so the schedules were set up for
>> freight and the passengers got what was left over.  That seems to have
>> changed.
>>
>> Always wanted to the Rockies trip, the Blue Train (in SA), and the Ghan
>> (in Oz).  I did the TraNZalpine (in, natch, NZ).
>>
>
> Having had some mates do it......I'd recommend the Helsinki-Saigon/Ho
> Chi Mihn City route via Moscow & Beijing.
>
> Kinda like a camping holiday where the tent is constantly on the move....
>
> Adam

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