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"dining car" is a special train carriage or section where you can eat a meal while you are traveling on a train.
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This restaurant is actually an old railroad car, and we were able to request to sit in a private
dining car for our dinner.
The trains also feature
elegant dining cars, activity cars with lounges, bars, entertainment, dance floors and more.
One or
more dining cars may be included in the train formation of any given departure depending on the number of passengers.
Leather reclining seats, a
full dining car and guided narration throughout the journey made the ride a wonderful experience.
Incredible attention to detail — authentic china
in dining cars, velvet and finery in the Pullman sleeping carriages, a charmingly stubby wooden caboose — give you a sense of train travel before cars became king.
This elegant and much loved train discontinued service in 1977 and might have been consigned to history had not American sea - freight entrepreneur James Sherwood bought a number of classic pre-war carriages and
dining cars at auction.
Two
dining cars seat 42 passengers each (much more than the train's 72 - passenger capacity).
Intricate woodwork and sumptuous textiles abound in the lounge and
dining cars as well as in the fourteen all en - suite cabins.
The Jupiter
dining car offers passengers cuisine made from seasonal ingredients that will change throughout the year.
Back around 1900, when the new Trans - Siberian Railroad began long - distance passenger service, a few of the first -
class dining cars and station buffets were sumptuous indeed, serving gourmet dishes, fine wines, and French brandies to well - heeled customers.
With five routes, the company's Deluxe Gold Leaf service (
dining car meals, bi-level dome carriages and luxury hotel rooms — but there's no sleeping on these trains!)
Throughout the carriages, rich wooden trimmings are used in addition to button leather seats in the
opulent dining cars.
The observation carriages were
originally dining cars, permission was given to Rovos Rail to repurpose the cars with extended windows and the addition of unique open - air balconies.
The Observation Cars were originally
A-28 dining cars built to drawings by Mr W Day.
From the gourmet cuisine and fine wines presented in the
beautiful dining car to the fully - appointed cabins each with its own butler, South Africa's Blue Train promises an unforgettable luxury rail travel experience.
In the 1950s, at the peak of the diner craze, the
Kullman Dining Car Co. was one of a dozen rivals duking it out to corner the market.
His father was a traveling starch salesman and his mother's father, a former prizefighter and
dining car attendant, ran a hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas, where the family lived for a while.
Multi-course meals in the two
ornate dining cars were prepared by well - trained Russian chefs who cooked everything from scratch, including baking fresh breads and pastries overnight while the passengers slept in their cozy cabins, rocked to sleep by the rhythm of the rails.
Food in the sparsely
stocked dining cars was often worse than at a factory workers» canteen, served on soiled tablecloths by surly waiters.
The train features four
separate dining cars, but the two - story Champagne Vista Dome Car in which I travelled provides a truly distinctive dining experience.
Descend into this subterranean speakeasy and you'll feel like you've entered a glamorous
railway dining car (minus the windows).
Oldtime dining cars would be too slow, so Luthi came up with the idea of installing chuckwagon buffet cars, letting the skiers pick up trays of food, then eat anywhere on the train from their laps.
There was chuckwagon buffet service in two stand -
up dining cars, huge cans of free ice cubes and paper cups spotted in the vestibules between the cars.
They have everything from an engine to a caboose as well as cars in between, including a Pullman sleeping car and a
Pullman dining car.
The fifth and final conversion of the River Forth into a
luxury dining car was completed in June of 2015 by Heritage Park.
The Park's Executive Chef designed a menu reminiscent of those from the 1920s Canadian
Pacific dining cars, which guests can enjoy aboard the moving rail car as it circles the picturesque historical park.
Russian train attendants give Westerners the evil eye, the liquored - up
dining car starts to look menacing, and the music gets overbearing.
Thursday: A sad - sack dinner at my desk or on the train, or maybe just 3 KIND bars because I hate the
Amtrak dining car and it hates me back.
By the time we crossed the viaduct over the river Boyne, I was sitting at the desk in my compartment, imagining myself one of the railway - borne statesmen — Ferdinand Foch, commander in chief of the Allies, perhaps — who patrolled the Western Front in converted Wagons -
Lits dining cars during World War I.
There are two
stylish dining cars offering a range of delicacies of India, Chinese, Continental cuisines, etc..
Besides, the train facilities
include dining cars, bar, lounges, LCD and Plasma TVs, Library, fitness Center, rejuvenation car and a conference cum business car equipped with photocopier, fax, Wi - Fi etc..
The train has two
dining cars named Mayur Mahal & Rang Mahal which can easily accommodate 42 passengers at once.
One of the
other dining cars displays the famous and glorious Rene Lalique glass carvings.
Rohan Vos searched Africa for authentic African railway carriages and
vintage dining cars, he found them in scrapyards, private enterprises and clubs all over the country.
The train might have been destined to end up as simply a story of old world elegance, but a budding entrepreneur purchased some of the
pre-war dining cars and carriages.
When lunch time approaches, savor an Andean - inspired meal in the
lavish dining car.
With wooden bodies on steel underframes, they ranged in vintage from 1911 to 1956 and
comprised dining cars, sleeping cars, private saloons, staff and baggage vans and other types.
Coach 197 LETABA was acquired in 1987; she became the
third dining car restored to service.