Nostalgia & History > Box lunch delivery on a Southern excursion

Sept 83
Behind two Southern FP7 units this was on a Lexington-Chattanooga roundtrip excursion.
Looks like a mechanical door is open on the ex-Milwaukee dome-lounge car.
Tommy Lancaster Catering provided box lunches - car by car - on the trip.
Thanks to TO members for the location - Oneida, Tennessee.
Excellent trip.

Gary



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/29/23 03:43 by gcm.

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Neat - Another piece of railfanning history captured by your camera. I'd never have thought to photograph the delivering of box lunches.
Bob

Interesting pics, especially the Chessie Dome. So they delivered to every vestibule? Car by car? What service by the crew. Would the first shot have been from Southern’s open air observation “Lookout Mountain”, I think was the name. Thanks for posting such an interesting set.

Randy in PHX

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Oneida, Tennessee northbound.

Agree that is Oneida. I rode that trip seven times from 1985 to 1991. Outstanding trip and have many memories from those trips most of it hanging out the vestibles like in your shot. Always remember that first trip southbound as we stopped in Oneida for that Tommy Lancaster box lunch while the 611 took on water and coal. Lot of us jumped off the train to photograph the action as it rolled by us then back on to Chattanooga. 

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Man I wish I could have ridden those trips!

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Here is the building next to the Driftwood Restaurant in photo #2, also visible above the FP7's and the 86 foot boxcar in photo #1.

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Matthew

randyr Wrote:
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> Interesting pics, especially the Chessie Dome. So
> they delivered to every vestibule? Car by car?
> What service by the crew. Would the first shot
> have been from Southern’s open air observation
> “Lookout Mountain”, I think was the name.
> Thanks for posting such an interesting set.
>
> Randy in PHX
>
> Posted from iPhone

Delivered them to a vestibule for the cars on each side and then move ahead.
That might have been from the Lookout Mountain car.
Gary

Thanks for the location as Oneida, Tennessee.
Gary