[SteemFun] Abandoned Orient Express Train Reminds Us Of The Luxury Travel Of The Past Source

A Rotterdam-based urban  photographer who goes by the name of Brian has managed to capture a  piece of history that’s slowly fading into oblivion, namely the Grand  Orient Express. The train that defined luxury back in 1883 when it was  launched by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL).

 

There are only a couple  of these beauties left in the world. One, for example, was repurposed  into hotel suites in Venice-Simplon Orient Express. The other, the one  you’ll see in the pictures below, stands dormant in Belgium, untouched  from its last trip in December of 2009.