Trains are the most romantic way to travel. There is something achingly gorgeous and also innately terrifying about countless strangers in a slithering steel contraption moving from one place to another through liminal time and gorgeous countryside. It's easy to imagine disembarking as an entirely new person in an entirely new city. That’s why trains show up again and again in literature, symbolizing the way we can pass through a portal into mystery, love, loss and fate.
Hopefully, there won’t be a murder on your Orient Express, but if there were, would you become the sleuth you always knew you were? Maybe you’ll fall in love with a stranger in the dining car. Maybe you’ll sketch while you contemplate what it means to watch the world through the safety of a window.
Whatever happens on your next train ride, I hope it's a story worth telling.
