dining cars

Railway meal venues

Dining cars are railroad passenger cars equipped to serve meals, with a kitchen at one end and tables for passengers.

Also called restaurant cars or diners.

They were standard on long-distance trains through most of the twentieth century but have largely given way to simpler food service: The dining car served a three-course dinner as we crossed the Rockies.

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G