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When this story takes place, the Orient Express and CIWL, Compagnie Inernationale des Wagons-Lits (International Sleeping-Car Company) were at their zenith. Belgian George Nagelmackers founded CIWL in 1874 to provide luxury train service across Europe. He got the idea after visiting the United States in 1867 to 1868 where he saw the success of the Pullman night trains. By 1886, CIWL was operating its luxurious dining and sleeping cars on train routes across Europe and into Asia. Eventually, it operated in Africa and much of Asia. The company owned no train engines outright. Its cars were pulled by the state-run railroads of the time. In 1931, the company reached its peak of two thousand two hundred sixty-eight railroad cars. CIWL branched out into a luxury hotel line. Over the years, the original company underwent mergers and separations in the travel industry.

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