NOT THAT THERE'S MUCH TO SEE, BUT A HECK OF A WAY TO SEE IT:

Popularity of Europe’s railways keeps on growing (AFP, March 04, 2011)

Eurail, the company which sells InterRail tickets for train travel around Europe, reported last week that the number of passes it sold to visitors to Europe jumped by 11.9 per cent last year, to 427,000.

Interestingly, although there were predictable rises in the number of people buying rail passes from growing markets in Asia, it appears that the biggest jump has been in travellers from South America, where sales were up by a third.

It seems that more people than ever are looking to take the train — even Europeans, often unreservedly critical about their own rail systems, bought 6.2 per cent more passes to explore their continent by rail last year.