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>> i said now calm down. he said madam, the pennsylvania railroad will go to any length to avoid having differences between the passengers. perhaps it would be more of a convenience if we rearranged your seating. and as a small compensation, if you come with me to the dining car, we'll give you a free meal. maybe we'll find a banana for your monkey. >> i'm dick cavitt, funnier than chet hutley, and as pure and honest as new jersey. >> you could get people like norman mailer and woody allen. >> my only new year's resolution there year, i think i'm going to try to sleep through the nixon adminis...

Here officially as an open professional western film crew would have been unthinkable. in 2007 a japanese journalist was point shot killed filming a screen documentation. be seen with anybody talking to a camera and there would likely be a knock on your door in the middle of the night. yet so far, confronted with our cameras, a few smiles and mostly indifference at worst. shocking considering how recently the government has started to relax its grip. >> so you heard -- >> what? we lost a dining car here. >> we lost a dining car. but even our original car lost the wheel. so we just have to hope...

So you heard the sleeping call and the wheel. and the dining car? >> no, we lost the dining car, i hear. >> but even our car of the wheel. we just have to hope for the best. >> the night express to bagan. 600 kilometers of what will turn out to be kidney-softening travel by rail, but bagan, myanmar's ancient capital, i'm told, is a must see. >> the true old english experience. the engine is a french engine from the '70s. >> we've been told it's a somewhat uncomfortable ten-hour trip. so really the question on this end of the journey is come back on the train or fly in coffin. >> mishaps on bot...

>> sunset limited has an interesting history, it kind of dates back to the romantic time of train travel when it was very elegant and posh to travel by train. >> on september 20, 1993, trudy justin and her husband larry boarded the sunset limited in deming, new mexico, headed for florida. >> i could sit there and look and talk to other people, but the best part is going to the dining car. we went to the dining car three times a day. and you just trot back there and they were really nice to you. >> after dinner, trudy and larry returned to their seats to rest. the train stopped briefly in new o...

So you heard the sleeping call of the whale? >> the what? >> the sleeping call of the whale. and the dining car. >> no, we lost the dining car, i hear. >> but even our car of the wheel. we just have to hope for the best. >> the night express to bagan. 600 kilometers of what will turn out to be kidney-softening travel by rail, but bagan, myanmar's ancient capital, i'm told, is a must see. >> the true old english experience. the engine is a french engine from the '70s. >> we've been told it's a somewhat uncomfortable ten-hour trip. so really the question on this end of the journey is come back o...