Hello everyone:
March, 2021
For FEBRUARY, 2021 we will continue our tour all over North America by train with the diner in tow rather than being stuffed into a stub-end siding in some railroad yard we’ll be out on the Main Line traveling the rails and seeing the sights!
Please join in and suggest or contribute ideas for locations or trains to ride in your favorite locale.
Evening Dave, you’re off to a good start! Now where’s my napkin, I’m looking forward to using the silver service! [dinner] Must mind my table manners as well!!!
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Here are some pictures of the dining areas and galleys in Pullman dining cars:
Between services. Car circa 1915:
Christmas time? Note the party crackers on the tables and the decorations:
An old Pullman diner. The workmanship is incredible:
Where the delicacies were created:
Simply beautiful!
An observation lounge:
For those of you who would like to detail the galley interior:
Menu circa 1892(?):
Is that Ed?
This galley has had a little use:
What a place to have dinner!
Dave,
Well done-!, well done–!!
herrinchoker
Ed: Thank You for doing such a great job with the Diner for the past two months. The tour was wonderful
Dave: Thank you for the fantastic opening of the new diner for march.
-Kevin
Even though I have said it before, I was remiss by not starting the March Diner with a shout out to Ed for the excellent hosting job that he did in January and February.
Thanks Ed!![bow][tup][wow][yeah]
Dave
My word Dave, not only are my table manners going to be up to scratch, but I’d best trot out my best bib and tucker as well!!
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
No but this is:
The things we do to get free train rides!
C&O_3_1974B_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Thanks again to everyone who rode along on our circuitous journey! Glad you fellows enjoyed it. I gained about ten pounds!
You’re pulling out all the stops on the very first day, Dave! Great job [:D]
Now, back to that Century Dinner Salad [dinner]
Cheers, Ed
Good morning all. A frosty morning. Hopefully the sun warms things up soon.
A great start, Dave. [Y]
My first trip on a Pullman train was about 1952. We were traveling from Leeds to Newcastle and we boarded ‘The North Briton’. The decor was something ‘out of this world’ compared to the austerity we were living after the war. Food rashioning was still in force in the UK, yet meals on the train were plentiful. Watching the passing scenery on a full stomach was a delight.
[C] Coffee time. With Muffins. Help yourself The Blueberry one is mine. [yeah]
Thoughts & Peace to All who Require
David
Good morning
I’ll have the early Dining Car Special please[dinner]
Crazy Minnesota! Sunday it was almost 50 degrees, and yesterday it was chilly with snow flurries all day. A spring teaser as I would call it[(-D]
Thanks for starting the new Diner off Dave[Y] Just jumped aboard and getting settled here. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Thanks for the wonderful job you did on the Diner the last 2 months Ed[Y] Appreciated -&- Enjoyed! [:)]
Well, I got done dealing with some family issues last week. Not to go into detail but things got ironed out, I made sure of that. Brent, Charlie, Ed, Dave, John and anyone else I may have forgot, Thanks for your support!
Starting the week off here with some custom cabinetry continuation on my layout benchwork, Down in the Boiler Room[:S] I’ll post some pictures later or start another thread, …Who knows? I just hope that one monster I thought I saw out of my profile vision isn’t down there anymore[(-D]
Have a great day gentleman[;)]
TF
Good morning, and happy March First.
Ed … Again many thanks to you for hosting Jeffrey’s Diner in January and February.
Dave Critter … Thanks for starting the March thread. Dining Cars is a great idea for a theme this month.
Assuming it is okay with everybody, I’ll post some pictures of Diner Cars on my railroad this month. I have several full diner cars and I have a few cars that are half diner car and half parlor car.
The picture below is a model I built of a Burlington modernized heaveyweight dining car. The prototype was equipped with thermopane windows.
The railroad acquired several streamlined stainless steel cars made by Budd in the 1940’s and 1950’s for its Zephyr passenger trains. Also, older cars were upgraded to work on secondary passenger trains. They were painted silver to more closely match stainless steel cars. The railroad attempted to apply shadow striping to resemble fluted stainless steel, but that was not successful. Thereafter, such cars were simply painted silver.
Good morning, diners. I guess our regular waitresses are taking a month off and we’ll be served by actual dining car waiters.
Thanks, Ed, for the last two months of travel, and thanks, Dave, for taking this months dining car journey.
TF, I’m glad everything worked out. Family issues are never pleasant.
My first dining car experience was on UP’s City of Portland. I was pretty young traveling with my mother to visit my sick grandfather in Tacoma, WA. We slept two nights in the coach seats, but my mother splurged and had us eat in the dining car. She had to explain to me what the little bowl of water on the table was used for. What a great trip.
Hope everyone, including those facing health issues, has a good day today.
In what city was this photo taken?
I never realized that the prototype actually had a ground throw that almost looks exactly like the Caboose Industries item.
Morning all.
Back from the Southern Command, drove thru some nasty thunderstorms on the way home in the Missouri Bootheel.
Garry, I missed your good news about the tumor, great to hear, nice diner cars too.
lots of stuff going on at work. we are looking to hire another position and going thru group internviews. I think we have it narrowed down. Note to those who want a job, don’t show up for interviews dressed like you just woke up on a park bench in central park. That person went to bottom of list.
Dining cars were not a feature of the railroads where I grew up, being all commuter lines. So, I’ve only eaten in dining cars 3 times, and two were permanently parked cars simply used as dining rooms. The first was an old diner used at the Iron Horse restaurant, a place in the ski town of Newry, Maine. The second was a car at a restaurant near here in Delaware called The Salted Rim. I suspect it was actually just an old coach that had been renovated.
We did get to ride in an in-service diner on the Cape Cod and Hyannis Railway, a tourist line on Cape Cod. Delicious food, but only a short trip. The conductor told us the car had been part of a consist on the Illinois Central that ran as the City of New Orleans.
Good evening Diners. I have been running a few trains, whilst Dawn has been to exercise classes to strengthen her legs to help her walk. It was all done by a zoom meeting.
[dinner] Chinese Chicken Curry with Fried Egg Rice and Potato Wedges.
David
Hello Railfans!
Top of the day to yas! Starting out pretty fair here… cloudy - overcast, and calling for rain which im sure there is 100% chance of no chance! A half mast humbug day for sure.
Critter Dave) WOW, that was a heck of a hole-shot starting off the month like that. Took me 30 minutes to read past the front door [(-D]. Excellent! You picked a very good subject. Your posted pics are excellent too - look at how ornate some of those cars are! But are you gonna be able to keep Ed in that white tux all month?
( My mystic eye is forseeing many food fights ahead should the ‘animals’ be let in [(-D] [(-D] )
In general) Again, my best get well wishes to those who are suffering. Better weather and better views are coming!
Not much going on in the train room so to say. Did a little puter work on my inventory program last night. Prolly do more of the same tonight.
Have a wonderful evening folks!
Green Lights!
Douglas
Good evening, everybody …
Maxman … [:)] [:)] [:)] Thank you … It’s the city of Heartland.
MLC … Thanks for your comment about my news.
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Here is another modernized heavyweight car I built. It is a diner / parlor car. So, half of the car is a diner while the other half has parlor seats.
In all my years of “train watching” I often saw one of the cooks “looking things over” as the diner was passing through the station or passing another train:
rn1-436 by George Hamlin, on Flickr
Always a friendly wave or a “How ya’ doin’?” as the car passed by. A long-standing ritual.
I had to replicate this on my layout. [:)]
PRR_diner by Edmund, on Flickr
The above cars are ones that were built by Budd for service on Pennsy’s “Blue Ribbon” fleet. In later years the Tuscan paint was stripped off. I did the same and repainted them with AlcladII. I could never figure out why Walthers never offered this later “bare-stainless” version. It would be appropriate for late PRR, Penn Central and Amtrak.
If I were to add up all the available diner chairs I have for my little HO people i’m sure it would number close to 500. Maybe more! I do have an affliction toward collecting diners [:-^]
I hope everyone is doing well this first day of March [angel]
Welcome back, TF [Y]
Good evening diners.
I received a nifty little gem in the mail today. I finally have an Athearn Hustler. I saw this one come up for sale and bought it instantly. It has the rare gear drive conversion installed.
The description said it ran erratic and needed repair. It runs fine. It does draw a lot of current (1.2A) and makes some noise.
I think it is the original Athearn motor. I am not familiar with the ins-and-outs of the gear drive conversion. I have a small Sagami can motor that might get installed one day.
I spent the day putting on layer two of mud in the dining room and the ceiling repair patches.
Nothing else to report.
The World Is A Beautiful Place.
-Kevin
