Your layout is awesome, Ed!
I am still waiting for a manufacturer who willing to make a PRR twin-unit dining car in HO scale. But with the help from my daughter and her boy friend, we made something spcial in the computer [8-|]
Comment was made that no one mentioned PRR diners. I did eat lunch in the car on the train that provided a connection with the South Wind after the PRR ceased carrying through cars; it was not worse that what I expected for the time.
I failed to comment on the service in the diner on the Nancy Hanks II (CG) and Frisco’s diner lounge on the KC-Fla Special–I found both to be good.
- A lunch car and dining car formed a twin unit dining car for the train the Trail Blazer, the vehicle itself were rebuilt from heavy weight Pullman made diner, environmentally friendly, practical and good looking.
Not sure about the food, but advisements stated that dining on the Trail Blazer was economical. IIRC PRR admited that the concept twin unit dining car was inspired by the SP Daylight’s dining car.
The Lunch Car
The Dining Car. All pics from HAGLEY DIGITAL ARCHIVES.
While I can only look back via photos of dinners gone by, I can still eat like there. Picked these cook books up from Amazon and eBay.
Dining by Rail - James D. Porterfield, (I’ll have that with the Illinois Central Salad Dressing on the side.)
Dinning on the B & O, (I’ll take a bowel of the B&O Clam Chowder)
Dinner in the Diner, Great Railroad Recipes of All Time - Will C. Holloister (pass me some more of that Corn Bread Pie Mr. B & O!)
Very nice recommendations, I am going to turn my dining room into a dining car.
If memory serves me well, and I stand corrected, but I believe it was the editorial by David P. Morgan in August 1960 Trains who mentioned that Dallas businessmen would board Miss Katy’s Texas Special and ride out to Greenville just so they could order a meal in her dining car.
Miss Katy’s dining car. [dinner]
A trip to the Lone Star State on any of Miss Katy’s fine trains began in St. Louis. No one can pay tribute to Saint Louie best than the late great Judy Garland herself, in MGM’s classic motion picture, “Meet Me in St. Louis”?
All aboard for a journey via YouTube…and don’t forget to take the trolley!