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A dining car (American English) or a restaurant car (English), also a diner, is a railroad passenger car that serves meals in the manner of a full-service, sit-down restaurant. These cars provide the highest level of service of any railroad food service car, typically employing multiple servers and kitchen staff members.
Miss Florence Diner, one of the longest running and still operational train car style diners was first established in 1941 when Maurice and Pauline Florence Alexander opened the doors of the diner. While originally situated across the street, the diner found its forever home on 99 Main Street, Florence, MA (a village in Northampton, MA ) later ...
The Summit Diner in Summit, New Jersey, is a prototypical "rail car" style diner. Built by the O'Mahony Company in 1938. Collin's Diner, North Canaan, Connecticut, USA Mill Pond Diner, Wareham, Massachusetts Seaplane Diner, Providence, Rhode Island
Stepping into this diner gives visitors a chance to peek into a popular 20th century-style railroad dining car, a prefabricated Silk City Diner, which was made in Paterson, New Jersey from the ...
A Superliner dining car on the Southwest Chief in 2022. Pullman-Standard built 30 dining cars; Bombardier built another 39. [61] The dining cars can seat a maximum of 72 people on the upper level in tables of four. The galley occupies the entire lower level. At the center of the car are stairs down to the kitchen.
Often modeled on Parisian fine dining, onboard restaurants were a triumph of logistics and engineering that redefined luxury train travel. When Europe’s railroad dining cars were the height of ...
Mickey's Dining Car is a classic diner in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.Designed to resemble a railroad dining car, the prefabricated building was constructed in 1937 by the Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, then shipped to Saint Paul by rail, opening in 1939.
The Natick diner's original painted exterior "Quick Lunch" panels were discovered during repairs after a car crashed into the diner. The old panels are believed to be the last original siding from ...