The Vegas/L.A. X-Train sounds cool. So why use another train’s photo?

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pWe’re excited to hear about any new train projects in the rail-challenged U.S., and right now the most public one we’ve got is the A HREF=”http://www.xtrainvegas.com/” X-Train to Vegas/A. The luxe, 100% private-financed train is destined to launch in late 2011 and will ferry passengers from L.A. to Vegas and back amidst bar cars, gambling cars and dining cars./p

pOne disturbing thing we found: On the X-Train website’s “Photo Gallery” section purportedly showing the train, the below image is presented and labeled a “rendering:”/p

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pFolks, that is in fact an actual photograph–of the Blue Train, South Africa’s fabled luxury hotel on wheels. A HREF=”http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16928394/” Here’s a link to a 2007 article/A on the Blue Train featuring the photo in question. /p

pThe photo is the only one on the X-Train website that doesn’t feature the stamp of X-Train designers A HREF=”http://csdarchitecture.com/” Carpenter Sellers Del Gatto Architects/A so hopefully it wound up on the website by mistake./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/the_vegasla_x-train_sounds_cool_so_why_use_another_trains_photo_16553.asp”(more…)/a
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