Originally Posted by
Seat 2A
. I wish I'd been born 30 years earlier... I could've had a lot of fun riding the new postwar streamlines that graced American Rails in the 50s and 60s...
I may have been born 30 years earlier, but I didn't get to ride many US streamliners pre-Amtrak, as my family moved to Europe long before Amtrak: Erie's
Erie Limited was the extent of it. But in Europe I managed to ride the
Orient Express (many times on various stages between Paris and Bucharest), the
Tauern Express, the
Vidobona, the
Manchester Pullman (last all-Pullman train anyplace and only first class), the
St. David Pullman, the
Italia Express, the Soviet's
East-West Express (Moscow-Paris, which once included a through sleeper from Moscow to Madrid), the
Sud Express, the
Chopin (Vienna-Warsaw), the
Blue Train (trains with same name in France and in South Africa), the
Nord Express, the
Direct-Orient, the
Arlberg Express, the
Mozart, the
Cisallpino,
Le Capitole, the
Ostende-Vienna Express, the
Trans-Siberian Express, just about all the (all first-class)
Trans Europe Expresses, etc., etc. Alas all gone today. Yes, not a one of them remains. Then it was on to India, Latin America, east Asia, the antipodes, Africa and Canada for more Rail adventures. Yes, airlines were neglected.