Depression Era Food

[AlaCowboy]

Back in the 1970s and 1980s Southern Railway ran the Southern Crescent from New Orleans to Washington, D. C. I took a few trips on it with my family. The food was fresh cooked in the kitchen car and served in the dining car. China plates, silverware, cloth tablecloths and napkins, and great waiters that doted on each passenger. We would sometimes ride to New Orleans from Atlanta leaving at 7:30 am, have breakfast as we rolled out of town, sit in the glass-topped observation car until lunch, and finally arrive in New Orleans about 5:00 pm.
The return trip would leave New Orleans at 3:00 pm and we would have dinner as we crossed Alabama, then sit in the observation car and watch the lights of Atlanta as we approached town about midnight. Great times.

[daleko]

Aug 24, 2016 0:36:47 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

Back in the 1970s and 1980s Southern Railway ran the Southern Crescent from New Orleans to Washington, D. C. I took a few trips on it with my family. The food was fresh cooked in the kitchen car and served in the dining car. China plates, silverware, cloth tablecloths and napkins, and great waiters that doted on each passenger. We would sometimes ride to New Orleans from Atlanta leaving at 7:30 am, have breakfast as we rolled out of town, sit in the glass-topped observation car until lunch, and finally arrive in New Orleans about 5:00 pm.
The return trip would leave New Orleans at 3:00 pm and we would have dinner as we crossed Alabama, then sit in the observation car and watch the lights of Atlanta as we approached town about midnight. Great times.

I'd think the trip to Atl would have been interesting to view. On occasion, if we were visiting the in-laws in Peoria, I'd take the train to Denver from Central Ill. Always interesting people to meet at dinner and brkfst. In the summer it stayed daylight long enough to see something. Sadly, by the mid-90s, the lounge was nothing more than some plastic seats. Somewhere on my list is to do the Blue Train in RSA from Cape to Vic Falls.