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a restaurant doing 80 miles an hour while you spill your soup.
means A railway carriage fitted out as a restaurant, where passengers can sit at tables and eat full meals while the train is in motion.
from A plain compound of "dining," from the verb "dine" (which came through Old French "disner," possibly from a Late Latin word meaning roughly "to break one's fast"), and "car," here in its railway sense — itself from Latin "carrus," a wheeled wagon, a word the Romans borrowed from Celtic. The thing arrived with long-distance rail in the 19th century, when journeys grew long enough that travelers needed feeding en route rather than bolting food at station stops, and the name simply describes the function: a car in which one dines.
- golden age
- Pullman crews polished silver on every transcontinental run
- shared tables
- strangers seated together by design, not accident
- kitchen size
- gourmet meals cooked in closet-sized galleys
- vanishing act
- most modern trains swapped them for microwaved snacks
- window seat
- the scenery changes faster than the menu
orient express dining car — legendary luxury train running from paris to istanbul since 1883, famous for its art deco dining carriages
flying scotsman dining car — lner express train between london and edinburgh, iconic british streamliner with dining service from 1928