Chapter Fifteen
Paris
The TGV sped along at well over 120 miles per hour, cutting the regular train or auto trip from Geneva to Paris to less than a third of the usual time, even if the automobile was driven by an insane Frenchman! The modern rail cars were smoothly streamlined and gimbaled so that as the train eased around the wide, high-banked curves, the passengers and crew felt only the downward centrifugal force and were not thrown to the outside edges of the car. There were ten cars, an engine at each end and a baggage car behind the leading engine. In that car was an assortment of oversize baggage too heavy to go with passengers in the cars, plus an array of special parcels, many assigned to the various overnight freight services that served Europe and the rest of the internationa
