I think it enriches it. Here’s the Q & A video. It was incredibly difficult to find the train that they use in the film (it sounds like high-level bribes were involved).

Ninety percent of the train scenes were shot on a movable set that consisted of a 10-car Indian North Western Railway train crafted by production designer Mark Friedberg and his team.

The Darjeeling limited (the actual name of the blue train) moves along gracefully while flanked by the ominous backdrop of desert terrain, and there's a splendid montage toward the conclusion of ...

So The Darjeeling Limited is a train, and the title of the film, obviously. And this train carries our 3 leads on a path to hopeful bonding and self/group discovery. Francis (Owen Wilson), the oldest, ...

The Darjeeling Limited is a train especially mocked up for the film, a hybrid of the old U.S. 20th Century Limited and the Orient Express with regional patterns and colors and not remotely like ...

"The Darjeeling Limited" is classic Wes Anderson ("Rushmore," "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou") who both directed and co-wrote this film about three estranged brothers who try to reconnect ...