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a hotel room doing 80 miles an hour while you dream.
means A railway carriage fitted with beds or berths so passengers can sleep during an overnight journey.
from A plain English compound: 'sleeper,' one who sleeps, joined to 'car,' the railway sense of which comes from Latin 'carrus,' a wheeled wagon, by way of Old French. Such cars appeared as rail travel stretched across long distances in the 19th century — most famously the Pullman sleeping cars in America — and the descriptive name simply stuck to the room you snored in while the world rolled past.
- Pullman empire
- Once the largest single employer of Black Americans
- Folding genius
- Beds vanish into walls by morning
- Pricey nostalgia
- Often costs more than flying the same route
- Rocking sleep
- Gentle sway actually helps many drift off
orient express — luxury sleeper train running between paris and istanbul since 1883
trans-siberian railway — moscow to vladivostok sleeper service covering 9,289 km across russia
caledonian sleeper — overnight train service between london and scottish cities since 1873