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A few years ago, I published a book which described the procedural instructions by the Santa Fe Railway in operating their superlative dining cars. It is called:

 

Santa Fe's Last Dining Car Service Instructions

 

96 Pages & Over 60 Illustrations. Softcover.

 

Defining in complete detail the proper service of every menu item served aboard Santa Fe dining cars during the final days of Santa Fe's service and at the beginning of Amtrak.

 

Perfect for the dining car china & silver collector as well as railroad historians to understand how each piece was used in actual dining car service aboard the Super Chief, the El Capitan, the Texas Chief, the San Francisco Chief and the Grand Canyon.

 

Restaurant owners will be interested to note the extraordinary detail applied to service of similar items on different trains. For example, if you wanted a baked apple served with cream on the Super Chief, instructions are specific as to which bowl to use, which plate should "underline" the bowl, how the cream is to be served, and of course a silver finger bowl should be served on the side.

 

It is the way travel used to be.

 

My book features photographs by the internationally acclaimed photographer Farrell Grehan. There are also photos of Mimbreño, California Poppy & Adobe china.

 

Developed from Rules & Regulations of the Dining Car Department, AT&SF Railway Company. Edited for clarity and accompanied by informative explanations & photos.

 

 

$37.50 includes postage & handling to any US address; to Canada, $40; elsewhere please inquire and I will calculate additional charges (in no case would exceed $43.00 US).

 

I will be pleased to autograph the book and inscribe it however you request (for example a gift to a friend or family member).

 

David

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Photo below is of the cover of the book.

 

By the way ...............................

 

I'll not only autograph the book for you but will even provide a choice of whatever pens/inks I have in rotation at the time. Can you beat that?

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That looks excellent. Travel by train was the apex of travel in the States - sadly it is no longer so, perhaps with the exception of the American Orient Express. If money weren't so tight I'd certainly have a copy, but...

 

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This thread saddens me. I rode up from DC to NYC on the Amtrak Acela this afternoon, and it was so ORDINARY compared to the description of the service on the Santa Fe Railroad only 50 years ago. The Acela sures beats the airlines for a pleasant travel experience, but it doesn't hold a candle to the railroad experience of 50 years ago.

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"The moment he opened the refrigerator, he saw it. Caponata! Fragrant, colorful, abundant, it filled an entire soup dish, enough for at least four people.... The notes of the triumphal march of Aida came spontaneously, naturally, to his lips." -- Andrea Camilleri, Excursion to Tindari, p. 212

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Any left.

 

I have a friend who might like this. I actually thought, at first, you were selling a Dining Car, which he would definitely have wanted!

 

Still time to deliver before Christmas!

Cheers,

 

“It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness”

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