New dinner train out of Columbia, Missouri?

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:41 pm

Boy, THAT was fast. Someone asks here about how to start up a tourist train/museum, and then.... whammo.

From AP via a post at TrainOrders.com:

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"Mid-Missouri train lovers could soon have a chance to ride the rails and eat dinner or brunch all at once.

Central State Rail plans to offer round trips from Columbia to Centralia starting in August with Friday and Saturday dinner service and Sunday brunch. The train would run on the city's COLT line, which is now used primarily by the local utility department.

The Columbia Missourian reported that the train will be moved from Waterloo, Iowa, using $45,000 from the Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The dining train consists of two 1950s Streamline locomotives, four dining cars with bar service and another car with a complete commercial kitchen."

This is apparently the specific train set in question, seen sitting in Waterloo, which if memory serves correctly was last being used in Quebec?:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1384930

eze240 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:29 am **Posts:** 319

Thats the old Grand Traverse dinner train set, it was for sale on ozark mountain railcars site until, I think, around the begining of this month. might still be the old owners,as it was not shown as being sold..... hopefully they'll do well....

Unseenthings · **Joined:** Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:51 pm **Posts:** 155

ironic because that train set was one that I looked at before I made my post how to start up a tourist train/museum

New dinner train out of Columbia, Missouri?

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