This was the LIRR #2037 "Tuscarora Club" and prior to that, LV #1000 "Lehigh Valley".
http://www.purplewave.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?purple314/1500

Now, you see, here's another example of a "theoretical" for the RR Museum of Pa.:

Pro:
LV somewhat under-represented, with a LV coach of similar vintage still unrestored last I checked and that nice LV Budd RDC.....
I think the RR Museum of Pa. lacks a good diner representative, at least that people can walk through.
Cheap, if they mean "without reserve" and only $35 so far...... not like that will last.....
ooooh, roller bearings......

Cons:
Gutted and much modified interior (but then you can set up the display as you want it)
Georgia--a long ways away.........

Lord knows, did we just hand yet another project to those masochists known as the EL Dining Car Preservation Society? Let us hope!

No. But I always thought LV passenger service was an interesting topic. Maybe it's because it was gone so early (1961) or that I remember the dining car department commissary building in Easton. A recreation of LV dining car service has my vote, but someone else will have to form the "Lehigh Valley Dining Car Preservation Society".

"Tuscarora Club" was the only diner in service during the late heavyweight era on Long Island. She was painted dark gray, with a blue stripe through the window band, with the LIRR's "Weekend Chief" logo on her end flanks. This car was assigned to the "Cannonball", Long Island's premier, first class train,Friday nights, from Hunterspoint Avenue to the Hamptons and Montauk. She returned on Sunday nights, as part of the "Sundowner".

I have just been notified that someone has purchased this diner and intends to restore it as an LV diner! The owner has suggested perhaps some day it could run with our two EL diners.