European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A steam locomotive needed tots of breathing room after a Long haul. Fit passengers on trains coming into Cologne Are greeted by the City s massive Cathedral. 54s Jim Dert Elm for the High Speed Tiv trains to Lyon and Marseille is an architectural Monument itself. Its elegant clock Tower is vaguely reminiscent of big Ben a indeed one of the rooms of the restaurant is called the big Ben bar. The who a building Speaks eloquently of the Belle Poque As the entire Complex was built around 1900. The Buffet an enormous set of gilded rooms with monumental paintings and plaster sculptures was clearly meant for great things from the beginning. Today it is classified As a French historic Monument which Means it will be preserved the Way it is forever though the name has changed the Buffet de la care As it was formerly is now the train Bleu after the luxury night train to Nice that leaves from the station. The restaurant was inaugurated on april 7, 1901, by the president of the Republic Emile Loi Ibet. The 41 paintings on the Walls portray scenes of Paris Villefranche Monaco Nice Marseille and of course Lyon. The food has not always been quite up to the surroundings in the past but if you want a reminder of travel in the grand style before airports and fast food it s still the place to  Art or architecture is also very much in evidence at one of the most unusual Railroad. Stations of Europe the Yaroslavl station in. Moscow. The Yaroslavsky Vonzal is one of three stations next to each other in the huge Square still called Komsomol Skaya North of the City Center even though the Komsomol communist youth organization is a thing of the past. Most muscovites have always called it the Square of the three stations anyhow the Leningrad station architecturally the least interesting of the three is still so called and Lenin s statue still stands before it though the City renamed for him has regained its identity As St. Petersburg. The Yaroslavl station next to the Leningrad is the Square s architectural Gem dating to 1904. The work of Fyodor o. She Bekhtel it is designed in a. Uniquely russian form of Art Nouveau. The original part of the building is the exotic facade and ticket room with a High curved roof that looks like a Russi fied version of one of those vast fireplaces in a French Renaissance chateau. From there the trans siberian journey begins to. Ulan Bator and Vladivostok some 5,800 Miles and several Days away. Many of the great train stations were build to accommodate steam trains like this one Fite is amps Jim Ooi Tiomi the Hohenzollern Bridge rebuilt after being destroyed in world War it seems to run right into the massive Spires of Cologne s gothic Cathedral. January 2t, 1993 stripes Magazine