Train Restaurant Derailed

[inch53]

Sorry to hear bout that, maybe some one will buy it and keep it going. I've never been there, but always wanted too. We have several friends that have, said me n the wife would enjoy it.

[G Paine]

Don't forget Regie Van Gleason on the Jackie Gleason show with his O scale bar train. (I must be showing my age - I swear it was not that long ago!! )

[MOJAX]

I never made it to the new location, but my father and I went to the old place on Western Ave several times when I was a child. I don’t remember the food but I can still see the train stopping with our meal!

[Anonymous]

IN the early 2000, Sushi served on trains were huge in Australia, there were almost one Sushi Train restaurant at every corner.  For some reason, it's like last season's clothing, within a couple of years, the trains were all gone and replaced by stainless conveyor belts!  I saw a tain in  a Japanese restaurant couple of years ago and asked if I can have my served on the train and the owners told me it's not working.  So I think the Sushi Train was a great idea but it seems the reliability of the trains were very poor!

I still think having freshly made food hauled to you on a train is a great idea and adds a novelty factor in a restaurant.  I am sure the large scale trains these days are much more complicated and with the popularity of DCC, imagine your food going through CTC control having to come from a yard in the kitchen!  I bet the kids and adults alike would be fascinated by it!  Just have to make sure all the scenary material is firmly glued down, you don't want someone choking on green lychen thinking it's some dried seaweed!  LOL

Hmmm...anyone want to go halves in such a restaurant?  ;-)

[loathar]

In the early eighties I worked in a hobby shop.  One Saturday afternoon a guy came into the store and exhibited an intense interest in LGB.  He ask a few questions and left with a set and an extra flat car.

The guy had just hit big in real estate sales and had built a jacuzzi on his patio where he and his significant other spent the evenings.  A friend of mine went over to his place and ran a layout from inside to outside the house onto the patio; he then modified this extra flat car - as well as the original flat which came with the set - with some kind of a hold down mechanism.  This guy would come into the house, build himself a couple of banana daiquiris - hope I've got that spelled right - and would run them out to jacuzzi-side for refreshment.
 

LGB electric trains run by a juccuzzi full of water.

[Anonymous]

That's too bad. I wish there was one of those near me!

 

[dinwitty]

try to find the film, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

[R. T. POTEET]

In the early eighties I worked in a hobby shop.  One Saturday afternoon a guy came into the store and exhibited an intense interest in LGB.  He ask a few questions and left with a set and an extra flat car.

The guy had just hit big in real estate sales and had built a jacuzzi on his patio where he and his significant other spent the evenings.  A friend of mine went over to his place and ran a layout from inside to outside the house onto the patio; he then modified this extra flat car - as well as the original flat which came with the set - with some kind of a hold down mechanism.  This guy would come into the house, build himself a couple of banana daiquiris - hope I've got that spelled right - and would run them out to jacuzzi-side for refreshment.
 

[grumpy61]

I thought everyone in the diner would be interested in this.  The Snackville Junction restaurant in Evergreen Park IL is closing.  They delivered hot dogs, hamburgers, and french fries on a Lionel train.  Here is a link to the story in the Chicago Tribune.  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0704230516apr24,1,3704440.story