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Inside the ‘world’s first private luxury train’: created by Steve Jobs’ yacht designer Thierry Gaugain, the G Train could cost over US$300 million to build
STORYBusiness Insider
- Thierry Gaugain helped create former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ superyacht as well as private jets – but those projects have nothing on this 400-metre concept train
- Instead of an Amtrak passenger train, Gaugain designed a glass-encased ‘vehicle of the future’ complete with VIP suites, an art gallery and even a swimming pool
We’ve all heard of private yachts and private jets. But now French designer Thierry Gaugain has designed what he calls the “world’s first private luxury train”.
Gaugain is a prolific designer who has worked across multiple fields, designing furniture, glasses, motorbikes and private planes. Gaugain has also designed yachts, and helped create Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs’ 80-metre yacht “Venus”.
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But now, for the first time, Gaugain has decided to create a private luxury train design, in part because “everyone loved trains in their childhood”, he said. “It’s an old dream coming through.”
Yes, he could have designed an Amtrak or a passenger train. But why do that when you can create the “ultimate way to travel” in luxury?
We all know the expression “it’s about the journey, not the destination”. Well, that was the intention of the G Train.
“During my years of working on travel concepts, I fine tuned all the ideas of journeys, how to move and how to discover the world,” Gaugain said. “It appeared to me that a train for a one unique owner, [like] a yacht, was a very good way to reinvent the idea of journey.”
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