Imagine a time—not so very long ago, really—when the only way to travel cross-country comfortably and efficiently was by train. In America, the golden age of passenger rail service was marked by the introduction of Pullman Palace Cars in the late 1860s, along with famous passenger trains like the Santa Fe Chief and the California Zephyr in the 1920s and ’30s. In Europe, the Orient Express carried the world’s royalty and celebrities from one romantic city to the next . . . Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Istanbul.

March/April 2011