Canada’s «Orient Express»

Michael Trout - Jan 29, 2007
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The Royal Canadian Pacific draws from an elite fleet of dedicated Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) business and parlour rail cars, built between 1917 and 1930. These 80-foot-long, steel-constructed, Pullman-style "heavyweight" cars were built to carry the railway's elite, and on occasion, hosted the world's rich and famous. Among the luminaries that have graced the Royal Canadian Pacific's fleet are Bill Gates, Winston Churchill, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, and Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth...

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