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Trains are faster than ever. Recently, on a bullet train in France, I enjoyed a smooth
and silent 200-mile-per-hour ride through pastoral countryside. As if the rail company
was ashamed of the “slower” stretches, the speedometer was only illuminated when the
train exceeded 300 kilometers per hour. On a visit to Munich, I was photographing trains
pulling in to the station—with birds squished onto the windshields. Looking at those poor
birds, I thought, “You'd wait all your life to see a bird squished onto a windshield of a
train back in my hometown.”
