![]() ![]() So onboard kitchens with professional chefs preparing locally sourced, seasonal cuisine are often the standard. Most dinner trains take their menus seriously. ![]() Continuing affection for rail travel’s golden era has assured that a number of scenic and historic train rides continue to roll – some very fine dinner trains among them!īefore you get on board there are a few considerations. Today, Amtrak’s onboard dining options are pale reminders of the glory days that were. When air travel and the Interstate Highway system began driving passenger trains off track, the dining cars went with them. “Dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer,” went the pop hit “Chattanooga Choo Choo.” The song summed up the dining car’s place in the national psyche. Fortunately, hungry passengers were not forgotten and the dining car was born. As rail tech advanced, service stops faded. At first, eating enroute meant packing a basket or chancing one of the dicey eateries at locomotive service stops along the way. It’s on wheels!ĭinner trains recall a simpler time when great passenger railroads connected the nation. And when the pastoral landscapes, rugged wilderness, and romantic sunsets come into view, you know that you’ve been seated in a restaurant like no other. Tables set, servers await, soon the journey begins. The magic starts when you climb aboard… a hundred-plus-year-old “diner”… or a sleek mid-century streamliner. ![]() US dinner trains are back on track and good times are rolling again. ![]()
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