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Dining car

Dining Car at Orient Express.

A dining car (American English) or a restaurant car (British English), also known as diner, is a railroad passenger car. It is a place that provide meals to the passengers like sit-down restaurant.

In the setups, one end of the car contains a kitchen with a long walkway between seats next to it, and the other end has table or booth seating on either side of a center of it.

Gallery

  • A dining car aboard a Finnish long-distance train from Helsinki, Uusimaa to Kolari, Lapland, photographed somewhere between Helsinki and Tampere, Pirkanmaa in 2015

  • Wagons-Lits dining car in Austria in 2003

  • The pantry aboard former Santa Fe dining car #1474, the Cochiti. Over a million meals were served in the car, which remained in service through the late 1960s.

Further reading

  • Foster, George H.; Peter C. Weiglin (1992). The Harvey House Cookbook: Memories of Dining along the Santa Fe Railroad. Longstreet Press, Atlanta, GA. ISBN 1-56352-357-4.
  • Luckin, Richard W. (1994). Mimbres to Mimbreño: A Study of Santa Fe's Famous China Pattern. RK Publishing, Golden, CO. ISBN 0-9626362-1-5.
  • Luckin, Richard W., dir. (DVD) (2003). Super Chief: Speed-Style-Service. RK Publishing, Golden, CO.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Porterfield, James D. (1993). Dining by Rail: The History and Recipes of America's Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine. St. Martin's Press, New York, NY. ISBN 0-312-18711-4.
  • Notes on W.A.G.R.'s Dining Cars Watson, L.G. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, September 1982 pp194–213
  • On-train Catering in New South Wales - 1921-2001 Banger, Chris Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, March to July 2004 pp102–118;123-141;188-198;222-237;264-279

Dining Car Media

  • A dining car on an Austrian inter-city train in 2008.

  • Notice from the Central Pacific Railroad, ca. 1870

  • Dining car Queen on the B&O Royal Blue in 1895

  • A dining car on the Union Pacific's City of Denver, ca. 1950s.

  • The 'secret' Orient Express formed of genuine heritage cars is based in Paris and is used exclusively by SNCF French railways for its supported charites and for its own corporate use. The Pullman Orient Express is an authentic train in the style of the genuine Orient Express. The decor, staff uniforms and cuisine are faithful to the original 1920s / 1930s trains.

  • The dining car of the Via Rail Canadian prepared for meal service

  • An 1880s print advertisement extolling the virtues of meal service aboard the Chicago and Alton Railroad

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