You're watching...
Private rail cars begin to make comeback
Details
-
Description
Classic form of luxury experiences resurrection
- Duration 1:36
- Date Mar 17, 2012
You're watching...
Classic form of luxury experiences resurrection
Also in this playlist...
Auto-advance: ON
Auto-advanceThis transcript is automatically generated
As the Obama administration teams up with Amtrak to try and get high speed rail systems in the United States similar to the bullet train scene in Japan and Europe.
A select group are harking back to simpler times renting private rail cars popular sixty years ago to see America's -- Traveling in this kind of luxury we'll run you about 8500.
Dollars a day -- Amtrak will hold a private train cars at a cost of up to four bucks a mile.
-- -- include meals and open bars shaft and to -- you can bring up to ten guests with you.
Some people call this type of travel a way of guiding or taking a cruise on -- Bill Gates Warren Buffett Barry Manilow and professional athletes are sent to be clients of Houston Texas train car owner Patrick Henry.
I just think it's a great way to -- -- -- are great way to entertain clients and.
They're great way to spend time with your family and -- -- of these 1950s private luxury train cars that key is is our personal and business use.
The price that is bad boys anywhere from 350000.
To one and a half million dollars they're very difficult to -- there's only actively right now may -- six the.
Private railroad cars out there in the United States that -- Amtrak.
-- prove to ride behind -- -- says he pulls over 25000.
Miles a year on the train over the course of thirty to forty days he's taken clients to the Super Bowl to Kentucky Derby in the final four.
It's a great way he says to entertain clients but also reminds us that can be incredibly romantic whether it's a first date or anniversary.
Any -- in -- pointman Fox News.