#CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU Record Attempt Train 4 of 18R 741515:40 Umeå Östra - Sundsvall C 18:39Norrtåg

[jon@gruene.social]

So Rick Minnich (the cameraman following me) and I were still smiling at Padborg! Thanks @Pepijn for the pic! #LongestTrainEU

[toots@fairy.id]

@jon @Pepijn awesome

[oskarimkeller@fnordon.de]

@jon @Pepijn

Thanks for the photo. I've know Rick Minnich for some 30+ years, when he was still at film school. From working with him on film festivals and our exchanges throughout the years I have the impression that he would make a good travel companion for this crazy trip!
And he also is a documentary director and not just a camera operator.

All the best for the next legs of the trip!

[jon@gruene.social]

@OskarImKeller Ah, small world. He is a great guy to work with... and the next week we will have the first film out! @Pepijn

[oskarimkeller@fnordon.de]

@jon @Pepijn
Cool - you already have plenty of drama for a little short doc series it seems. And you haven't even reached France yet!

[raphv@social.edu.nl]

@jon @Pepijn I'm curious to know if this adds any planning and logistical challenges to have someone following you, since in all your previous cross-border adventures you only had to book seats, couchettes and hotels for yourself. Is he allowed to cheat and use alternative forms of transportation?

[oskarimkeller@fnordon.de]

@jon @Pepijn
Maybe you can convince Rick to join the Fediverse - it would be nice to find more film people here!

[cycling_on_rails@mastodon.social]

@jon I bet they'll say putting more trains isn't worth it until the LGV Rhin-Rhône is completed, and completing the LGV isn't worth it until there are enough passengers on the line.

Why start somewhere and choose the virtuous circle when you can just glide into the vicious circle instead?

[amymagdalena@lgbtqia.space]

@jon @RensBloom The Austerlitz to Tolosa night service also picks up passengers tonight in Orleans at 23:33

[jon@gruene.social]

@raphv @Pepijn He's not cheating - he's taking the same trains as me. And for night trains adding a second person is easy. The only headache was really with SNCF reservations, where there was no way to end up being sat together as I didn't book everything together.

[jon@gruene.social]

@amymagdalena @RensBloom And do tell me how to get to Orleans from Mannheim by then

[jon@gruene.social]

And I am on a Siemens built ICE4 (enough of the rattling and broken toilet Talgo shit, and the shaky Alstom shit) and it is perfect. Quiet, smooth, comfortable. This is how this trip *should* be! #LongestTrainEU

[amymagdalena@lgbtqia.space]

@jon @RensBloom Teleportation apparently

[sinistreroptimismus@troet.cafe]

@jon

Meanwhile in Munich: car number lottery on the ICE by changing the numbers every minute.
Thank you for traveling with Deutsche Bahn.

[jubeldoktor@troet.cafe]

@jon I hate the thing since I repeatedly got ice cold air blown into my face, when commuting on them in winter.

(Every trainset when entering a tunnel or other changes of air pressure or sth like that).

Admittedly, didn't get the chance to try the Talgos yet.

[jon@gruene.social]

Thanks @pink for joining me on board ICE 771 between Göttingen and Kassel! So many conversations with different people en route today, it's great!

[onterof@sueden.social]

@jon Wtf, so the international Frankfurt - Marseille TGV is the last direct Strasburg - Lyon ?!? 🤯‍️

[jon@gruene.social]

@jubeldoktor Ha. In a Talgo you'd be fearing the doors blow off!

[philippbirken@fediscience.org]

@jon only +7 on the connection to Hamburg? That's just cheating!

[jubeldoktor@troet.cafe]

@jon Jesus Effing Christ