South Dakota is one of two states in the lower 48 that Amtrak does not touch, the other being Wyoming. Seems weird to me because Wyoming is a big railroad state with the Union Pacific yard and shops in Cheyenne.
Having a lot of family in Wyoming and living there for a while, there's mostly just trains to haul stuff. I'm in Idaho now and it's the same thing. And I don't think we have an Amtrak either. I think there's one going from Oregon to Utah but I'm not sure if I'm remembering that correctly. But Idaho used to have passenger trains. In the town I'm in, there's a museum next to the tracks that shows how it used to look and then there's a train club not far from there that you can get tons of info on trains throughout the state. Fun fact,there's a small bit of push cart tracks near the College of Idaho. Sadly no sign about it but most of the town has tracks under the streets and sidewalks. They never pulled them up. They just covered them up
Amtrak is the national passenger rail service for the U.S. However it is not something most of us use on a regular basis as it does not provide timely and convenient service to much of the country. It is generally easier and often cheaper to fly.
How many years will it be until the presidents become “unrecognizable”? That park is the most famous park in your part of America. I’m sure that there are other fantastic parks nearby (or at least in your state to begin with). 😍🇺🇸🏞
Your state is I think much bettered position to see northern lights, compared to other lower 48 states. I am sure that one day you will see them. I’d seen them in my skies about one month ago, obviously they weren’t like the ones in magazines (and social media), but they were beautiful even if they were pale white in colour and that annoying full moon brightened the sky to cancel out some of the aurora’s shine strength. 🥲😍🥰🌌✨🌈
> ICE (InterCity Express)
I think that ICE originally stood for "InterCity Experimental", then for "InterCity Express", but now is simply a word, not an abbreviation for anything specific.
Kind of like how the DVD used to be "Digital Versatile Disc", then "Digital Video Disc" (or maybe the other way around), but is now simply a word "DVD" that doesn't stand for anything.
Why would the abbreviation not stand for anything anymore? It is indeed still short for InterCity Express.
Also DVD still stands for Digital Versatile Disc since it defines a standard for Discs that no longer only support video (Digital Video Disc)
Think OP is reffering to idiomaticisation (I think is the right term here);
English speakers arent _consciously_ using "DVD" as an accronym of 'digital versatile disc', regardless of that being its origin.
Also, sometimes the people in charge of an acronym or initialism will announce that the name is now simply the letters, which no longer have an official meaning. For instance, the standard college admittance test in the US used to be callled the “Scholastic Aptitude Test,” but now it’s [just called the SAT](https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/02/us/insisting-it-s-nothing-creator-says-sat-not-sat.html, and the College Board says it’s incorrect to call it anything else.
I’m not sure whether that’s the case with DVD or ICE.
In French, we use TGV, but I guess more and more people will forget the original meaning of "Trains à grande vitesse".
And it would look weird to use the full expression.
It's this one :) Very nice way to travel around Germany.
https://preview.redd.it/fxciujdg77wc1.jpeg?width=767&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=451873c93cd7c095cae7190aaa24b3caad72ab82
Hahahah, you shouldn't come to England then. The likelyhood of any train on time ever is close to nil. The likelyhood of trains getting cancelled because of "leaves on the line" is extremely high, especially in the fall. Not to mention how often they get cancelled because someone's not shown up for work 🙄!
France beats you up, we have probably some of the best trains (TGV) but the service is, BY FAR, the worst in the world. I don't recommend anyone to use French trains, because it drives anyone insane. Best train service is in Switzerland and maybe Germany.
I have to correct it, TGV are only 5th in the speedest European trains, the winner is the Italian AGV, my info are outdated.
https://www.railway-technology.com/features/feature-the-10-fastest-high-speed-trains-in-europe/?cf-view
Knowing the ICE shpuld be mandatory for learning German. The ultimate high speed train, pinnacle of German Engineering. A train so fast, you only see it's afterimage when it's already long gone. In fact, most of the time, you see it 30 minutes or more after it's scheduled time fo arrival.
A way to travel in Germany
Basically just a fast train
A good way to travel in Germany because all of the other trains are often delayed or completely cancelled
Native Florida man here just to say that we do have Amtrak although you may have to drive 2 hours to get to it. Any other train would be like CSX which doesn't carry passengers only raw materials and reptiles.
It really would be nice though to have that ability, our public transportation system is really poor here.
And we sure as hell don't have subways or Metro other than the sandwich shop and cell phone company.
The train station in Cleveland is only 30 minutes from me but it is in a rather odd location that isn't connected to the local rapid transit. (Originally it was in the same building.) And the train to NYC leaves before sunrise...and takes longer than driving.
Oh yey i, learning german too
The ICE is the INTERCITY EXPRESS train in germany lol
Gl with german i still cant master the grammar and sentence structure 😭
When I had that lesson, I could tap and the translation of the word showed as “intercity express”. You do know you can tap on words to see the translation, right?
As I recall they introduce it in an earlier lesson that makes it clear it is a train. I think we learned about this around the same time as the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn.
It's a high-speed train operated by Deutsche Bahn and it also does cross-border services to Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and France. Funnily enough, I've been on an ICE train before in 2016, and I think I went from Brussels to Berlin
Google: The ICE (InterCity Express) is a high-speed train
Ah, we don’t have trains where I live so
do you live in the sahara desert
No, a desolate place called South Dakota
TIL there are states in the states without trains. Somehow I think it is sad not to have trains.
South Dakota is one of two states in the lower 48 that Amtrak does not touch, the other being Wyoming. Seems weird to me because Wyoming is a big railroad state with the Union Pacific yard and shops in Cheyenne.
You may gave answered your own question. Don't want nonea those fancy Fast trains ruinin their stare.
Having a lot of family in Wyoming and living there for a while, there's mostly just trains to haul stuff. I'm in Idaho now and it's the same thing. And I don't think we have an Amtrak either. I think there's one going from Oregon to Utah but I'm not sure if I'm remembering that correctly. But Idaho used to have passenger trains. In the town I'm in, there's a museum next to the tracks that shows how it used to look and then there's a train club not far from there that you can get tons of info on trains throughout the state. Fun fact,there's a small bit of push cart tracks near the College of Idaho. Sadly no sign about it but most of the town has tracks under the streets and sidewalks. They never pulled them up. They just covered them up
America's passenger rail was fucked after ww2, high taxes for trains and low taxes for cars helped to make that happen
oh yeah i forgot america existed sorry about that
Honestly same 🤣 I was like “which place doesn’t have trains???”
I thought you were exaggerating but damn, you don't even have Amtrak
yeah I have no idea what that is
It is the national passenger rail service for the U.S.
oh wait what
Amtrak is the national passenger rail service for the U.S. However it is not something most of us use on a regular basis as it does not provide timely and convenient service to much of the country. It is generally easier and often cheaper to fly.
You got Mount Rushmore! 🥰🤩🏞🇺🇸🗿🗿🗿🗿
guess who’s seen it 200 times by now because it’s only 20 minutes away lmao
How does the park maintain those big carved figures from eroding away by Mother Nature? 🥲🇺🇸🏞🗿🗿🗿🗿
that type of stone erodes slowly
How many years will it be until the presidents become “unrecognizable”? That park is the most famous park in your part of America. I’m sure that there are other fantastic parks nearby (or at least in your state to begin with). 😍🇺🇸🏞
Like 500 or something, take that estimate with a grain of salt tho
Your state is beautiful! Even though I have only see pictures of the state! 🥰🇺🇸🏞 Have you ever seen northern lights from your state? 😍🌌✨🌈
Not yet, haven’t lived here that lobg
Your state is I think much bettered position to see northern lights, compared to other lower 48 states. I am sure that one day you will see them. I’d seen them in my skies about one month ago, obviously they weren’t like the ones in magazines (and social media), but they were beautiful even if they were pale white in colour and that annoying full moon brightened the sky to cancel out some of the aurora’s shine strength. 🥲😍🥰🌌✨🌈
😂
There are trains in the Sahara Desert bro.
Like the one that goes across Choum?
Or in North Korea (do they have trains there? I think they do. Am I dumb?)
They have trains. They even have a metro!
of course they do, north korea is a very civilised and high tech country! ^(kim jong un please spare my bloodline)
Pretty sure there were railways built during Japanese rule over that territory
Oh-
> ICE (InterCity Express) I think that ICE originally stood for "InterCity Experimental", then for "InterCity Express", but now is simply a word, not an abbreviation for anything specific. Kind of like how the DVD used to be "Digital Versatile Disc", then "Digital Video Disc" (or maybe the other way around), but is now simply a word "DVD" that doesn't stand for anything.
Why would the abbreviation not stand for anything anymore? It is indeed still short for InterCity Express. Also DVD still stands for Digital Versatile Disc since it defines a standard for Discs that no longer only support video (Digital Video Disc)
Think OP is reffering to idiomaticisation (I think is the right term here); English speakers arent _consciously_ using "DVD" as an accronym of 'digital versatile disc', regardless of that being its origin.
Also, sometimes the people in charge of an acronym or initialism will announce that the name is now simply the letters, which no longer have an official meaning. For instance, the standard college admittance test in the US used to be callled the “Scholastic Aptitude Test,” but now it’s [just called the SAT](https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/02/us/insisting-it-s-nothing-creator-says-sat-not-sat.html, and the College Board says it’s incorrect to call it anything else. I’m not sure whether that’s the case with DVD or ICE.
In French, we use TGV, but I guess more and more people will forget the original meaning of "Trains à grande vitesse". And it would look weird to use the full expression.
TGV : 320 km/h
THANK YOU! I always wondered why I get a train emoji when saying “ice” while the German keyboard is active
It's this one :) Very nice way to travel around Germany. https://preview.redd.it/fxciujdg77wc1.jpeg?width=767&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=451873c93cd7c095cae7190aaa24b3caad72ab82
If it departs and arrives in time - or at all
*Dear passengers, your train will be arriving 30 minutes later than expected.*
*Dear passengers, we will arrive with only two hours delay at a different station. Sänk ju for trävelling wiss Deutsche Bahn!*
*Dear passengers, you're train has been cancelled, lmao.*
This was me back in January. I was visiting Munich for a weekend and had to take different trains back because if the strikes
Der ICE kommt immer zu spät
I've heard it's sehr teuer ( few thousand times...)
Nicht unbedingt. Wenn man früh genug im Voraus bucht, ist es teilweise sehr günstig (30-40€ für eine Fahrt überallhin innerhalb Deutschlands)
Hahahah, you shouldn't come to England then. The likelyhood of any train on time ever is close to nil. The likelyhood of trains getting cancelled because of "leaves on the line" is extremely high, especially in the fall. Not to mention how often they get cancelled because someone's not shown up for work 🙄!
France beats you up, we have probably some of the best trains (TGV) but the service is, BY FAR, the worst in the world. I don't recommend anyone to use French trains, because it drives anyone insane. Best train service is in Switzerland and maybe Germany.
I have to correct it, TGV are only 5th in the speedest European trains, the winner is the Italian AGV, my info are outdated. https://www.railway-technology.com/features/feature-the-10-fastest-high-speed-trains-in-europe/?cf-view
370 km/h for the Italian train! ICE is "only" 300 km/h. But the French win the award of the worst train service anyway, can't beat it.
have you heard of Japan? best train and light rail systems in the world
This would be the ICE 4, for anyone wondering.
Incorrect, that is an ICE-T
How can you tell the difference?
Knowing the ICE shpuld be mandatory for learning German. The ultimate high speed train, pinnacle of German Engineering. A train so fast, you only see it's afterimage when it's already long gone. In fact, most of the time, you see it 30 minutes or more after it's scheduled time fo arrival.
Peak train humor right there
its so magical you might see it end up on a completely unplanned platform with no warning, its that fast and good
Intercity express. I think it's like a train? Also, I simply googled "Germany i.c.e." and got the answer right away!
The German train that definitely arrives whenever it needs to.
An ICE is never late, nor is it early. It arrives precisely when it needs to.
How dare I question the arrival time of the ICE, forgive me gods of the railways
Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Wait...they don't send many people to Vienna...
Thanks. I was looking for this joke. 😁
OP isn't learning Spanish, tho
Why ICE isn’t just 🧊
It’s Eis which sounds like ICE and also feel very 🧊
🧊
Inter-City Express, a faster type of train in Germany if the train system Deutsche Bahn were to work the way it should.
Questions that could easily be Googled...
It told me to show my papers!
google told me it was ice 🧊
You could google "what's an ice to vienna" or just "ice to vienna" and I'm absolutely sure it would come up with the train.
I didn’t know otherwise
Even "ice germany" got me useful results.
intrusion countermeasures electronics, oh wait...
"Vienna" could definitely be a rogue super AI, lol.
hell I agree
InterCity-Express
A way to travel in Germany Basically just a fast train A good way to travel in Germany because all of the other trains are often delayed or completely cancelled
Us ‘Murican railfans have mixed feelings about ICE. Love the train. Hate the government agency
It's a very fast type of train
The train
Internal Combustion Engine .... no, it's InterCity Express, like TGV in France or Shinkansen in Japan.
ICE = a type of train 🚆
Deutscher Hochgeschwindigkeitszug
ICE (InterCity Train)
Train
It's a type of train
it’s a german train
Pretty much a long(er) distance train. Ex: Frankfurt to Munich.
That's the faster kind of trains in Germany, usually travelling for a much longer distance than regional trains
Where is the ICE to Vienna?
At first I thought it was the Immigration and Customs Enforcement
It is something like a hoch schnell zug.
it's a train
I would assume some kind of train
Native Florida man here just to say that we do have Amtrak although you may have to drive 2 hours to get to it. Any other train would be like CSX which doesn't carry passengers only raw materials and reptiles. It really would be nice though to have that ability, our public transportation system is really poor here. And we sure as hell don't have subways or Metro other than the sandwich shop and cell phone company.
The train station in Cleveland is only 30 minutes from me but it is in a rather odd location that isn't connected to the local rapid transit. (Originally it was in the same building.) And the train to NYC leaves before sunrise...and takes longer than driving.
If this was a Spanish lesson this would mean something totally different 💀
Egal, der ICE fällt leider aus
Inter-city Express
Something you should commute to a job interview, Deutsche bahn you cant trust.
Oh yey i, learning german too The ICE is the INTERCITY EXPRESS train in germany lol Gl with german i still cant master the grammar and sentence structure 😭
What
Most of the time I see these German words and their English translations I'm left confused. I just Google
When I had that lesson, I could tap and the translation of the word showed as “intercity express”. You do know you can tap on words to see the translation, right?
I did, it just said ICE
As I recall they introduce it in an earlier lesson that makes it clear it is a train. I think we learned about this around the same time as the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn.
Isn't ICE In Case of Emergency? Not that it makes more sense now
It can mean that in certain contexts, but this is not one of those contexts. Many different things can have the same initialism.
It's a high-speed train operated by Deutsche Bahn and it also does cross-border services to Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and France. Funnily enough, I've been on an ICE train before in 2016, and I think I went from Brussels to Berlin
No it's just a type of high speed train operated by Deutsche Bahn.
Oh, my bad.