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Chilling on ICE

 Here ICE stands for Inter City Express. Part of a vast array of transport vehicles operated by the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) or German Railway.   ICE are considered the high speed trains that typically operate between any two large metros /hubs in Germany. DB is a state run operation that spans the entirety of Germany.  They operate a wide variety of long distance and local train services to create an immense network spanning over 20,000 miles which is almost the length of earth's circumference around the equator. I happened to get another opportunity to spend a week in Germany, this time in winter and enjoy riding these rails. While it got to a low of 0 deg C or just below 32 deg F on couple days it only snowed during my last couple days of the time I spent there. Most snow I saw was in fact just across the German / Austrian border in the historic city of Salzburg. Got to walk over the bridge on River Salzac and look at a fort on a hill (Schloss as they are known) that looks very