Song by Lô Borges, “O Trem Azul,” from Clube da Esquina. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO1MdbQQv28
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 15:31 (two years ago)
TItle track of a John Coltrane album (no "the")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjRbmtrDJI4
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 15:32 (two years ago)
Restaurant inside the Gare de Lyon in Paris, frequented by the characters in Jean Eustache's "La maman et la putain."
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 15:35 (two years ago)
Of course in that case it is Le Train Bleu," as is the French Bistro located inside a train car of sorts inside Bloomingdale's in NYC (Temporarily or permanently closed at the moment).
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 15:37 (two years ago)
Scene of the crime in an Agatha Christie novel, The Mystery of The Blue Train.
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 15:38 (two years ago)
All of which is a tribute to the original Train Bleu, aka the Calais-Méditerranée Express, a fancy French luxury night train ferrying the smart set to the French Riviera in the first half of the twentieth century.
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 15:41 (two years ago)
Actually it was apparently in service from 1886 to 2003 and its nickname became its official name after WWII.
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 15:42 (two years ago)
by far the best song stereotype ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7QM8ckxiD8
― brimstead, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:03 (two years ago)
best song ON sterotype a
the semi-mythical Bentley Blue Train:
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/bentley-blue-train-1581091770.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 18:14 (two years ago)
my favorite Lo Borges disambiguation is with Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads.
― hoonja doonja love me anymore (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 19:51 (two years ago)
Crazy Blue Train?
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 20:21 (two years ago)
Let's not forget...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srN_ZlTibUA
(galuboy vagon)
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 20:25 (two years ago)
Wikipedia pages has all kinds of copycat Blue Train luxury/night trains from around the world. I feel it would be pointless for me to post them here, better that other posters who have had a more direct experience do so.
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 20:30 (two years ago)
Anyway, thanks for that.
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 20:31 (two years ago)
Crazy, but that's how it goesNada a temer, nada a conquistarDepois que esse trem começa andar, andarI'm goin' off the rails on a crazy train.
― hoonja doonja love me anymore (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 22:02 (two years ago)