Originally Posted by
Michilander
About 5 years ago I tried to buy train tickets at the manned window at Schiphol and was told that they would not process US swipe-and-sign cards.
Either you misunderstood them or you got stuck at a clueless employee. They have always accepted swipe cards and still do to this day. They process several hundreds swipe cards per day and will continue until all the US cards have been converted to chip.