The Orient Express - Page 2

ZenGum · 07-18-2013, 07:37 PM

That's one wayyy classy train there.

Man, I'd kill to go on that thing.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-18-2013, 08:40 PM

What a lovely place to be murdered.

Don't apologize for too many pictures, they were all great, and impossible to adequately describe in words.

orthodoc · 07-18-2013, 09:07 PM

I agree. The pictures of the woodwork, the fabrics, the glass, the metalwork, the dining cars ... everything ... you gave us a look at something that most of us will never have the chance to experience. I'd love to travel on that train one day, but if I don't get the chance, your pictures and commentary have made it accessible to me here on another continent. Don't apologize. I'm grateful that you took the time and trouble to share.

Griff · 07-19-2013, 05:23 PM

Wow. Thank you for the glimpse Limey. So beautiful.

richlevy · 07-19-2013, 07:29 PM

Are the beds in the cabins bunk beds, queens, kings?

wolf · 07-20-2013, 01:33 AM

Amazing and very different from U.S. rail travel.

limey · 07-20-2013, 03:27 AM

Bunks, Rich. The cabin is about 4 sq. metres, and the carriage attendant swaps it from day (an upholstered bench seat with fold-down table) to night (bunks) while you are at dinner. In the morning you have to vacate your cabin for 5 minutes while he swaps it back again.
Oh, and Wolf! It's very different from rail travel in the UK, too!
As a post-script here are some more shots of the Orient Express logo - it was everywhere. I'm sure they have a problem with cutlery going missing!
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And part of the train's colourful history!
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richlevy · 07-20-2013, 10:10 AM

Thanks. I found these images. The classiest looking bunk beds I've ever seen, but you wouldn't find me up on that ladder. As for sex, if the lady is planning on going cowgirl, she should wear a helmet.

07-18-2013, 07:37 PM	#16
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	That's one wayyy classy train there. Man, I'd kill to go on that thing. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

07-18-2013, 08:40 PM	#17
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	What a lovely place to be murdered. Don't apologize for too many pictures, they were all great, and impossible to adequately describe in words. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-18-2013, 09:07 PM	#18
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	I agree. The pictures of the woodwork, the fabrics, the glass, the metalwork, the dining cars ... everything ... you gave us a look at something that most of us will never have the chance to experience. I'd love to travel on that train one day, but if I don't get the chance, your pictures and commentary have made it accessible to me here on another continent. Don't apologize. I'm grateful that you took the time and trouble to share. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

07-19-2013, 05:23 PM	#19
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Wow. Thank you for the glimpse Limey. So beautiful. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-19-2013, 07:29 PM	#20
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Are the beds in the cabins bunk beds, queens, kings? __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

07-20-2013, 01:33 AM	#21
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Amazing and very different from U.S. rail travel. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

07-20-2013, 03:27 AM	#22
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Bunks, Rich. The cabin is about 4 sq. metres, and the carriage attendant swaps it from day (an upholstered bench seat with fold-down table) to night (bunks) while you are at dinner. In the morning you have to vacate your cabin for 5 minutes while he swaps it back again. Oh, and Wolf! It's very different from rail travel in the UK, too! As a post-script here are some more shots of the Orient Express logo - it was everywhere. I'm sure they have a problem with cutlery going missing! And part of the train's colourful history! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

07-20-2013, 10:10 AM	#23
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Thanks. I found these images. The classiest looking bunk beds I've ever seen, but you wouldn't find me up on that ladder. As for sex, if the lady is planning on going cowgirl, she should wear a helmet. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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