Amtrak Viewliner Dining Car

However many of the scenic long distance trains still have a dining car where you can sit and order meals during your rail trip.

Amtrak viewliner dining car. Amtrak hasn t gotten rid of its dining car on these routes altogether. Paul oswell business insider i was traveling on the crescent service which is one of amtrak s viewliner trains a single level railway car. Built by amtrak s beech grove shops with the help of budd in 1988 this was the prototype viewliner dining car. The side table hidden sink and mirror inside the roomette.

View the list below to learn more. In 2011 it was re activated using funding from the american recovery reinvestment act economic stimulus. Amtrak rebranded dining cars on these routes as sleeper lounge car. Within the next few months amtrak will also debut new viewliner ii sleeping cars for east coast trains which is the first addition to the amtrak sleeper fleet in more than 25 years welcome news no doubt for travelers overnighting it on the rails.

Amtrak has recently ended traditional dining car service on some of its routes east of the mississippi river. Checking out the roomette bedroom and refurbished dining car on amtrak s viewliner on my trip down south on the crescent line. For more adventures and trav. A one of a kind viewliner dining car car number 8400 was rebuilt with stimulus funding and restored to revenue service in october 2011 and given the name indianapolis originally a prototype dining car with experimental trucks built during the viewliner design phase in the late 1980s the car was completely rebuilt at amtrak s beech grove shops and currently serves on eastern long distance.

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