• Where are the trains of yesteryear?

  • Tell us where you were and what you saw!
Tell us where you were and what you saw!

Moderator: David Benton

  by David Benton
 
A TV scriptwriter follows the path of the Orient Express, is detained by Syrians and goes looking for the ghost of Lawrence of Arabia. Sounds like pure soap opera.

http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3389/co ... ryear.html

  by John_Perkowski
 
Canadian Pacific Railway hasn't refurbished a fleet of streamliner era cars; they've refurbished a fleet of STANDARD WEIGHT era cars.

I think I want to take this trip:

http://www8.cpr.ca/cms/English/RCP/default.htm

John Perkowski

  by David Benton
 
that train looks a likely candiate for CarterB's most luxurious train thread ,
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28511

im must admit to not knowing wether the standard wieght era came before or after the streamliner era .?

  by CPRTim
 
John_Perkowski wrote:Canadian Pacific Railway hasn't refurbished a fleet of streamliner era cars; they've refurbished a fleet of STANDARD WEIGHT era cars
And this is the real thing: A Canadian Pacific Passenger Train. Not some tour train operator paying the CPR to run a train for them!