Think small train compartment with flat screen TVs and iPod docks for high-tech travel on the go.

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"Here there's not that hierarchy that there used to be, " she said, though she acknowledged that ringmaster Andre McClain rates the train's biggest compartment.

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To Henry Cao, who was seated beside a window in the last compartment of the second car, the train seemed to float, describing long elegant turns and shuddering now and then with the whump of a train going in the opposite direction.

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