The Grandluxe Express: Traveling in High Style (Railroads Past and Present) | Karl Zimmermann

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	The Grandluxe Express: Traveling in High Style (Railroads Past and Present) Karl Zimmermann Indiana University Press, 2007 - 143 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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This lavish book invites readers aboard the glamorous renovated cars of the GrandLuxe railway train. In 1989, the American-European Express, a stylish train created in emulation of Europe's Orient Express, commenced operation between Washington and Chicago. Forced to close down two years later, it was reborn in 1994 as the American Orient Express. The AOE, as this luxury streamliner was often known, matured under the tutelage of various owners until 2006, when under new ownership it acquired a new name, the GrandLuxe Express.Trackside, the train gleamed as a classic American streamliner. Aboard, travelers enjoy old-fashioned, wood-paneled elegance that harkens back to the 1920s and Europe's posh Wagons-Lits sleepers and restaurant cars.

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A beautiful book!

This is a beautiful book - visually gorgeous, with stunning photography and design, written with enthusiasm, grace and authority to match. It's not only for rail fans (the die-hard version of whom are known to themselves as "foamers") but for anyone who likes trains. There's a wealth of historic information, woven skillfully into descriptions of the railcars themselves, the trains and rail journeys of yesterday today, and tomorrow. Want to know what a menu on the GrandLuxe Rail is like? It's here. What a sleeping car is like today? What it was like in the 1920's or 1940's? It's here as well, along with elaborate portraits of the lounge cars, dining cars, observation domes, and the men and women who bought, sold, succeeded and failed with them over the long history of rail travel. Karl Zimmermann is the premier writer and historian of trains in America, and he shows why in the sumptuous feast of a book.

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