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dining car

NOUN
railroad car where meals are served to passengers
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By the time I arrived in the dining car for my first dinner aboard, we were nearing Barstow.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

Amtrak doesn’t play favorites in the dining car, so meals are another built-in meetup.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

A perk of having a room is that it’s considered first class, so a dedicated attendant will be available to help with turndown service and luggage, and dining car meals are complimentary.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2024

And so Ricky Chatto found himself constructing a complete dining car and sleeper carriage inside Clean Bandit’s studio in Finsbury Park.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2024

We ate almost all our meals in the drawing room, journeying to the dining car only on those infrequent occasions when Mother yielded to our complaints that scurvy was threatening to set in.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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