Stopping Indonesia’s Roof Riders with Threatening Concrete Balls

Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains Now they have an intimidating and possibly even deadly new tactic.

Traveling on fast trains in Europe

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President Obama’s stimulus plan includes $ 8 billion to help jump-start a new network of high-speed trains. But the future of rail is already here in other parts of the world, including Japan, China and as Kathleen Schalch reports, the European Union. (photo: French TGV, Getty Images) Download MP3

• See a map of the High-Speed Rail plan for America
• High-Speed Rail plan for America (DOT)
• French National Rail System SNCF