I will need a train from Prague to Vienna on Monday December 8, 2009. I don't want to leave at dawn, but sometime before noon would be good. I checked the schedule on raileurope and it shows the first train as 1:33 pm. Is this possible? I thought for sure that there would be more trains on a Monday. Does anyone know where I can look for schedules other than raileurope? Thanks!!

Use the Deutsche Bahn website. It is http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/e

All you really need is:

bahn.de

and click on the British flag for the english version.

ditto

Raileurope.com does not list nearly all the possible trains IME - just selected ones. You can easily buy these tickets in Prague - either at the station or from any travel agent there but if you want everything taken care of and then just having to board the train with a reserved seat then raileurope is the main portal (along with ACP Rail) in the U.S. And for any RailEurope product i strongly suggest calling budgeteuropetravel.com and have a manual search done as even though raileurope does not list all possible trains they can actually book them as budgeteurope does thru them - but raileurope charges you an extra 10% to talk to anybody and then often IME they know little. Buying in Prague should be fine but folks have reported long lines and language problems so have all the info printed out from the Wunderbar www.bahn.de site before getting to the ticket window. There should be no fear of a certain train selling out IME