This train was designed to look like the Palace of Versailles

Mass transit in the U.S. is notoriously poor compared to its European counterparts.

It’s no secret that airports are widely disliked, particularly recently as Transportation Security Administration lines have caused wait times longer than usual. But trains in the U.S. aren’t perceived as a picnic either.

Amtrak has 1.3 out of five stars on a Consumer Affairs website while France’s SNCF, the national rail, gets 4.3 out of five stars on the Rail Europe site. While feedback on those sites point to differences in customer service and dependability, France has another major difference now — it has made each of its trains into works of art.

France started the Art in Transit program in May 2012 and now has several trains with different themes, including Claude Monet’s “Blue Water Lilies,” Camille Pissarro’s “Morning, Sun,” the famous clock or the glass wall of the Musée d’Orsay and, probably the most famous work of art from France, the Palace of Versailles.

“The ‘art in transit’ offers advantages all around: Passengers travel in a pleasant environment, the museum arouses the interest of a new audience, and the transit authorities protect the interior of their trains — they have noted that vandalism is less of a problem in these ‘train-museums,’” the website states.

The Palace of Versailles decorations are on a train that runs from Paris to the Palace and is about 20 minutes long.

So while you’re trekking through security and boarding mass transit in the U.S., keep an eye out for artwork that might make you feel better about those long wait times.

This story was originally published May 23, 2016 at 2:02 PM with the headline "This train was designed to look like the Palace of Versailles."