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The Eerie Remains of Once Luxurious Orient Express Train Photographed Abandoned Somewhere in Belgium

The name Orient Express is characterized with a lot of mystery, adventure and intrigue, which come from a lot of references in literature, film and music. The Orient Express once began as a long-distance passenger railway services in 1883. The train was created by the international hotel and travel logistics group Compagnie Internationale des Wagins-Lits (CIWL) and it original route ran from Paris, are de l’Est to Giurgiu, Romania by way of Munich and Vienna. Since then the routes and rolling stocks on the Orient Express have changed many times.

Even though, today is no longer functional, its legacy still remains high in history of the railway.

Photographer Andre Joosse came upon an abandoned train in Belgium during his explorations and captured the rusted and haunting carriages and locomotives. These locomotives were placed at this site by national railway company from Belgium. The plan was to safe them for a railway museum, but until they make it into those museums, the trains are getting worse and worse.

The Orient Express it’s known for offering luxurious and comfortable travel experience. As you can see the remaining of fine wood details, you can clearly imagine the experience in this train in the time when traveling was still rough and uncertain.

If taking a ride on the Orient Express still resonates with your sense of grandeur and history, the name and legacy of the train lives on as the Venice-Simplon Orient Express, a private venture by the leisure company Belmond that offers guests the chance to step aboard and experience truly elegant travel, wrapped in timeless romance.

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23 Y.O. Daughter Who Lives At Her Dad’s House Rent-Free “Exposes” Him On Social Media For Excluding Her From Family Vacation By Not Buying Her A Plane Ticket

Each parent has a different parenting style. With each parenting style comes a different way of showing a misbehaving child their wrongdoing, along with a different way of correcting such wrongdoings.

This father had a very terrible daughter. In his post in the Am I The A-Hole subreddit, he began by describing his daughter as someone who had a bad attitude and barely made it through high school. This is in contrast with her younger sister, who was the cream of the crop. To reward the younger, he thought of taking her on a fully-paid vacation. When the older heard of it, she wanted to come but agreed that she would pay her expenses. Come the day of the trip, the older hadn’t paid for her trip yet because she assumed that her father would vouch for her. Follow the full story below!

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This father is asking if he was wrong for not fully paying for her daughter’s vacation




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The father received split reactions from those who believed he did nothing wrong and those who believed he practiced favoritism.









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