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 Post subject: Peru Andean Explorer
PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 1:05 pm 

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"Shipped over from Australia" Anyone know what they are talking about?
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/01/travel/peru-andean-explorer-luxury-train-journey/index.html

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 Post subject: Re: Peru Andean Explorer
PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 7:21 pm 

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My devise could not display the article, so here goes a guess:

The Andes and the Victoria region of Australia have a gauge in common. Most of the RRs are 3' 6" gauge. In Peru the famed G&Q is 3' 6". The route to lake Titicaca is likely same.

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 Post subject: Re: Peru Andean Explorer
PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 8:35 pm 

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Location: Somewhere east of Prescott, AZ along the old Santa Fe "Prescott & Eastern"
The new operation is the Belmond Andean Explorer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmond_Andean_Explorer

The rolling stock is from the Venice-Simplon Orient Express's former Great South Pacific Express in Queensland from 1999 to 2003, built new for the service:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sou ... ic_Express

A still-alive website still promoting the service:

http://home.southwind.net/~safaris/gspe.html


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