Dining car

Dining Car
Dining cars were mostly custom jobs for each railroad. The major car builders would cater to the railroads' whims and wants be incorporating all kinds of specialized features like slab sides instead of corrugation, polarized windows, ...

dining car (British English: restaurant car) or diner is a railroad passenger car that serves meals on a train in the manner of a full-service, sit-down restaurant.
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Before dining cars, trains would make a meal stop at a station which had dining facilities. The passengers had enough time to debark, eat, and get back on the train. The railroad's dining halls were expert in handling these quick meals.

Walking to the dining car for the last meal on the rails, I ordered a bottle of French white wine and an entrée of chicken cordon bleu with a mushroom cream sauce, Mexican rice, and mixed vegetables.

The passenger carriage designation code used by the Australian Ghan service for a type of dining car.
DHR
RAILWAYS. Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
Diamond
RAILWAYS.

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A coach in which light refreshments are sold, but not sit-down meals (see also dining car and kitchen car).
Buffet Coach
A coach in which light refreshments are sold, but not sit-down meals (see also dining car and kitchen car).

UPP 5011 City of Denver was built as cafe lounge 1989, when it was rebuilt into a 36-seat dining car and renamed
UPP 4808 City of Los Angeles was built as a 48-seat diner
UPP 302 Overland was built as cafe lounge No. 5015.

An Englishman who established a chain of restaurants and hotels along the route of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and later also operated Santa Fe's dining car service.
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Because they were primarily for the use of coach passengers, they generally operated ahead of the dining car. Refer to Passenger Car Types for complete listing and links for all types of typical passenger rolling stock.

Steward: A person in a dining car with a role similar to that of a Maitre d'Hotel.
Stub (North America) A relatively short section of track that ends at a bumper or wheelstop, most often found in a terminal.

See also: Car, Track, Train, Engine, Standard