dining car
Noun
Meaning
a passenger car where food is served in transit
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dining-car
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Maria and her family had been at lunch in the dining car when the train jumped the tracks and slid down an embankment, causing the roof of the dining car to nearly cave in on them.
In 1867 Pullman introduced his first "hotel on wheels," the President, a sleeper with an attached kitchen and dining car.
‘It had 2 engines, 3 coaches, lounge car, dining car, 2 sleepers and 6 freight cars.’
Please make your way to the dining car or lounge soon.”
Every train Jens takes me to on our afternoon tour is like stepping out of a time machine: there’s a caboose from 1899, a pre-WWII Deutsche Reichsbahn diesel engine and the impressive mid-century dining car they use on club journeys.
She was commissioned to paint the dining car on the Whistler Northwind, a luxury train which ran, fittingly, from Vancouver to Prince George.