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Pub. Date
[c2004]
Description
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. Haines doesn't take the plan seriously, however, until his wife is suddenly murdered, and Anthony appears to demand that Haines keep his part of the bargain.
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Starting at Union Station in Chicago and ending in Los Angeles, follows the route of Amtrak's Southwest Chief. Includes stops in Abeliene, Kan. for a look at the Eisenhower museum, rides on the Cumbres and Toltec steam railroad, side trips on excursion trains from Lamy, N.M. and Flagstaff, Ariz. and a museum near Los Angeles.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington, D.C., to L.A. in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures, and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart, as he rediscovers people's essential goodness and someone very special he believed he had lost.
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Traces the impact of rail travel on society with an epic ride aboard the iron horse with changeovers to the Twentieth Century Limited and Japan's bullet train. En route, archival footage of trains and spectacular scenery from around the world capture the romance and enterprise of the railroad.
12) Silver Streak
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A wild action comedy about a murder mystery aboard a cross-country train.
13) Night train
Pub. Date
2009
Description
While on a night train, three strangers discover a corpse and a box of diamonds. At first, the three scheme to ditch the body and split the fortune, until their greed and paranoia pits them against each other.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
In Germany, follow the road in search of the Brothers Grimm, then head south towards the German Alps and view Ludwig II's castle. Then travel through Prague in the Czech Republic and head toward Eastern Europe to Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Istanbul, Turkey.