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Re: (erielack) Dining Car experiences

I remember as an 11 yr old riding the Lake Cities in 1966 with my family to
Chicago on our way to Texas. (The rest of the trip was on the Texas Chief.)
I remember the nice dining cars and the spacious views from the table
looking out the windows. I think the point the interested me the most was
that we had to fill out what we wanted from the menu on a card and if
memory serves me correctly, the menu stated we were not to give our order
directly to the waiter but to write it down. Another fascinating point I
recall was that when a meal was about to be served, a porter would walk
thru the coaches and play a few notes on what appeared to be a small
xylophone. Does anyone recall any of this?

Fred & Jeremy Stratton
http://erierr.railfan.net
ELHS#2733
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- ----- Original Message -----
From: TIMOTHY O. STUY <"njmidland_@_compuserve.com">
To: erielack <"erielack_@_internexus.net">
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 4:35 PM
Subject: (erielack) Dining Car experiences


Did anyone out there ever eat in a Lackawanna, Erie or EL diner?  If you
did can you relate the experience.  From the passenger point of view the
dining car was one of the highlights of a trip yet it is seldom talked
about in railfan circles.

Tim

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