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Old Feb 6, 2026 | 5:59 pm
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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.
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