By Phil Kabler, Staff Writer, Charleston Gazette-Mail; October 27, 2019
Throughout the golden era of passenger rail service in the 1920s, ’30s, and early ’40s, and again in post-war America, railroads prided themselves on offering four-star restaurant quality meals and service in their dining cars.
Even into the 1960s, as railroads struggled to adapt to new economic realities, resulting in mergers and bankruptcies, many railroads continued to provide quality dining, right up to the creation of the national rail passenger service, Amtrak, in 1971.