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Columbia Star Dinner Train equipment headed to Wisconsin
Whats the route it will take up to Wisconsin?
So the Minnesota diner train went to Colorado and the Missouri diner train is going to Wisconsin. Okay.
Great news - always good to have more Fs and nice equipment in the Northland!
I rode the Columbia Star on a dinner run. The interiors of the diners were redone with cheap materials and the construction workmanship looked shoddy. It was a let down. Maybe I expected too much. The condition of the track it ran on was Class 1, barely.
We had dinner on the train when it was the Traverse City Dinner Train in Michigan. Food was great, track was bad, cars were so-so.
Have had dinner several times on the Grand Traverse Dinner Train. Food was great along with a relaxing 18 mile through beautiful Boardman Valley. The train was the perfect setup with dining cars, a kitchen with locomotives on both ends.
Tim from Mich.,
A very enjoyable trip. You are correct, having the cars set up the they are was perfect. The not so good track actually made for a much more leisurely trip. Very enjoyable, sorry it’s gone.
Maybe I am too ‘old-school’ and also a senior citizen: However, I will only take ‘dinner-in-the-diner’ on REAL varnish. Maybe that is just me:)