TRAINS April 2006

Amtrak’s food fight
congress is trying to decide whether your next meal on Amtrak will look like fine dining or fast food.

Silver Bullet by rail
From hops to finished beer, Coors takes the train.

Rolling restaurants
As with any business, dinner trains demand a lot of work and a certain amount of savvy to succeed.

Getting enough iron in your diet?
Some eateries are intertwined with railroading. Here are three of our favorites

Meals by Fred Harvey
Get to know the man, the food, the Girls, the Santa Fe trains, and the legacy.

The best on wheels
For nearly a century, the reputation of many U.S. railroads rode on their dining cars.

Cooking on the coal scoop
Where there are hungry railroaders and a live steam engine, there shall be hot food. Even today.

Map of the Month: Dinner hour on the Pennsy
See where the Pennsylvania Railroad’s dining cars were on a Sunday evening in 1938, as if frozen in time.