Luxury rail is entering one of its busiest periods in years, with new routes launching across North America, Europe and the Middle East. The Canadian Rockies, the Saudi desert, the Italian coast and a new Rome-to-Istanbul corridor are all new territory for ultra-premium trains, and the appetite for all of them is only growing.
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