Attuvian 1 (another John) suggested as a topic for this month’s diner, be diner’s. So with out further adieu let’s go in search of diner’s along or near the line(s).
Looking forward to more great conversation and learning a wee bit more about our fellow diner’s. First round is on me as I am finally allowed to have a snort after my surgery. 
Enjoy!
Thanks for getting the job done with moving the Diner, Brent. Great to see all the familiar faces here!’
Diners? Well, here’s a bright and cheerful one!
Or are you looking for Diners that are still on active rails? Got those in yellow, too!
UP directors train 1980 by Edmund, on Flickr
It’s that time of the year to get the goodies out!
I’ll take a custard, thank you!
Cheers, Ed
Good morning Diners. A coffee on the go please, Janie.
Two grandsons’ have stayed overnight. Now a lunch to make before they go.
The Dining Car - Glorious Past, and Promising Future? [S3: E10]
David
Good morning everyone. Happy March!
Happy March as well.
I want to tack one onto last month’s discussion on ships. I got to spend the night on the SS Rotterdam last summer. She’s been converted to a floating hotel, and is restored to her as-built configuration of the late 1950s. Staying aboard ad the ship’s tour were a joy.
While I was in The Netherlands, most of my travel was by bicycle, but I did use the rail system too. It was delightful.
Good morning all just coffee for me, on the run today hope to stop by later and catch up, have a great Saturday.
Chuck
Good morning…
Good morning
Thanks for starting the March towards Spring Brent. Some daffodils man! 
The Bear shared some really interestig history with me of a ship. It was very much appreciated.
He should share it again with all you chaps, so not to miss nothing, or is that not to miss anything?
Lets all say goodbye to Winter now.
Those double necks were expensive.
TF
Good Morning Diners, in the diner, talking about diners. And speaking of diners, Brent you are spot on. 599 posts last month! So cool to see our diner active again. I wonder how many pages that would have been in the old format? Plenty, I’m sure.
I can’t let John take all the heat alone, so Janie, I’ll have a plate of bacon with a side of fried eggs and some wheat toast please. Oh, and an orange juice.
Spent the evening spraying my newly laid yard ballast with wet water and dilute white glue. I need to get bigger sprayers. The small ones I bought are WAY to small for large jobs like that. Hopefully everything is glued well enough. A bit more dry time and we will see.
Cheers!
Mike
Good afternoon Diners. A hot chocolate please, Zoe.
Grandchildren have gone home. The house is quiet. 
Reading Allen McClelland and his Virginian & Ohio book. Interesting indeed.
Tonights dinner is Cheeseburger, Wedges and a Coleslaw Salad. (Burgers are home made.)
David
Good Saturday (?I hope I’ve got the day right!) morning, diners. I’ve gotten used to the warmer weather, so this morning I froze on the morning walk – a north wind and colder again. 
Evidently the geese don’t feel the cold – there were huge V formations of Canadian Geese flying over, heading north this morning. They sure make a lot of noise. The woods where I walk are normally pretty quiet.
When I was growing up in Grand Island, Nebraska, there was a very large old hotel right across the street from the Union Pacific depot. Inside the hotel was a diner - cafeteria. It served a lot of train passengers who had a stopover in the town. I was very young and have only fleeting memories of eating there – the hotel was torn down when I was in elementary school.
I used to love thinking about all the train passengers in the late 1800s and the early 1900s coming through on the train and stopping to eat at the Koehler. It was always exciting for me to think of all the places everyone was traveling to. (Don’t end a sentence with a preposition.)
By the time I was there, it was pretty much a deserted place. Even though the UP trains still stopped there, I don’t think there were many layover travelers left, and I assume most of the train travelers ate in the train dining car.
The hotel diner still had some regular customers, but not enough to keep it in business.
This is not the station I remember. It had been replaced by a much larger, more modern station, but the newer one was torn down shortly before Amtrak started. Amtrak did not use the UP mainline through the state.
This next photo is the station I remember. I can’t find any good photos of it.
Have a great day.
It’s Friday John 
You just gained another free day!
TF
@York1 your post reminds me of our trip to Steamtown in Stanton last year. We spent the night at the old Lackawanna station that had been converted to a hotel. It was fun to imagine what that would have been like in the height of train travel.
It’s Saturday. Just for York John’s sanity.
That was quite a few years ago. Quite a few.
Don’t quite remember everything so well anymore, but do remember it was a warm but windy weekend, blowing off the north shore.
Googled map quest after a great weekend to travel into Wisconsin to stop by and see Judy’s Mom.
I’m never hungry in the morning, especially after coffee. Who could not stop by the Trackside Dinner for breakkfast after his head snapped so fast, doing a double take, and whipping the truck around to go back?
The food was really good. Look at the place, would you expect anything different?
No, you wouldn’t have. You would of stopped too.
TF
Perfect Mike!
That was me that morning!
Don’t even remember where that place was anymore. But know where it is here.
TF
I don’t have Grand Island. Will North Platte do?
My dad and I traveled to the Rio Grande narrow gauge in Durango one summer in 1966. The interstate hadn’t been completed which was fine with me as we went through many towns on the ‘old route’. One overnight stop was at North Platte and after having dinner we spent a few hours at the same station shown above.
Not long after we got there along came two ‘huge’ Union Pacific passenger trains. Lots of activity went on as one of the trains split here and went different ways. I never saw so many shiny, clean passenger cars in my life. Out east we were just used to the run down, dirty Pennsy and New York Central, soon to be Penn Central, cars.
Great memories, though!
Cheers, Ed
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