The Blue Train – Gus Silber

Gus Silber’s book, The Blue Train, is a lavish non-fiction tribute and chronicle to South Africa’s world-famous luxury passenger train, which travels the iconic route between Pretoria and Cape Town. Detailing the train’s evolution from its origins in Cecil John Rhodes’s grand vision of a Cape-to-Cairo railway through its more than four decades as a “Palace on Rails,” the book celebrates the opulence, history, and engineering achievement that turned a simple journey into a legendary travel experience and a showpiece for Southern African rail travel.