Lookback: the rise, fall, and romance of sleeper trains

From 2017:

Alas, the American Orient Express went bankrupt before I could book a trip to nowhere, and I doubt I’ll get another chance to relive the good old days of luxury train travel. Not enough Americans love trains to make it worth anybody’s while anymore. Unlike me, they see them as slow, bumpy, exasperatingly uncomfortable ways of getting from point A to point B, not as the miraculous vehicles of romance about which Johnny Mercer and Jimmy Van Heusen wrote so evocatively and well….

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