Passenger Trains > Looking for a dining car print

I am doing a display of railroad china in a remodeled kitchen.  I am looking for a photo reproduction of a dining car interior as part of the project.  I would like one with passengers/crew included, one of crew working in the kitchen would also work. I would prefer one from the era before Amtrak, 1920's thru the 60's.  I have looked at a lot of on line sites but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

There are several very good dining car recipe books availible that might have the pictures on the covers or pictures inside in between the great food that was created on these moving restaurants.
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Dining Car to the Pacific by William A. McKenzie, about the history of Northern Pacific dining car service, has several photos with interior scenes.

It is available from the University of Minnesota Press:

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/dining-car-to-the-pacific

Here are pics; they are in my collection, but I do not know the origins of the images and do not control them.  
1) PRR Broadway Ltd. 1940 twin unit diner
2) NYC 20th Century Ltd. dining car
3) C&O dining - lounge - observation car

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A few more:

4) SCL Silver Meteor 36 seat dining car in 1968
5) NYC kitchen crew
6) PRR counter diner

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Time to get into the Sherman & Peabody way back machine! Didn’t see nobody dressed like that when I dined on the Empire Builder last month! Oh to read what was on the menu!
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If you search Trainorders for the subject Midweek Menu - I posted a number of dining car interior scenes over the last two years.  All of the images I used were public domain (or credited to th railroad).

The Phoebe Snow Company's Facebook pages also has a photo album of photos.

Tim

Photo no. 4 is mine (from Flickr) https://www.flickr.com/photos/sjb4photos/13922440645/in/album-72157633235765245/, but I am totally happy for you to use it.  Also https://www.flickr.com/photos/sjb4photos/7166499448/in/album-72157633235765245/.  They aren't the best quality but are pre-Amtrak.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/08/19 06:16 by Slumbercoach.

MEKoch - Great series of photos, what a different time!