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Stories Behind Today’s Greatest Rail Dining Experiences, by James D. Porterfield, a col- lection of more than 250 recipes from luxury trains, dinner trains, private cars, business cars, and working railroads. [ ] Good Things to Eat, thought to be the first cookbook published by an African- American chef, Rufus Estes, who went to work for the Pullman Company in Private Car service in 1883, it contains 591 recipes. Available as a Kindle Edition from
www.amazon.com. [ ] The Harvey House Cookbook: Recipes and Memories from the Great American Dining Experience, 2nd Edi- tion, by George H. Foster and Peter C. Wei- glin, tells the Harvey story and provides recipes from the famous Harvey dining rooms that marked the route of the Santa Fe Railroad, published by Longstreet Press. [ ] Hospitality by Fred Harvey Cookbook, a reprint from the Fred Harvey Company in Grand Canyon, Arizona, offers 58 of the com- pany’s recipes. [ ] Pennsylvania Railroad Dining Car De- partment Cooking and Service Instructions, a reprint of the railroad’s 1947 publication, from the Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. [ ] Recipes of the Erie Lackawanna — Dinner in the Diner 1964-1970, offered by the Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preserva- tion Society, is a reprint of bulletins issued by the railroad’s dining car department to the dining car staff, including recipes, plat- ing directions, and serving instructions, available at
www.eldcps.org/store/ [ ] Santa Fe’s Last Dining Car Service In- structions, compiled and published by David R. Pieronnet, offers a number of the rail- road’s salad dressing recipes, but is, as the title suggests, predominately instructions for dining car employees. [ ] Union Pacific Dining Car Cook Book
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and Service Instructions, a company-com- piled service manual illustrated with actual photographs on the tabbed dividers, this book was distributed to passengers of Union Pacific special trains for the company’s board of directors. It is relatively commonly avail- able through book and railroadiana dealers. China: The following reproductions of fa- mous dining car china remain available and add a special touch to the dinner table: [ ] Banner pattern, used in Wabash dining cars from 1947-1960s is available in a five- piece place setting from the St. Louis Chap- ter of the NRHS to raise funds to help cos- metically
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http://tinyurl.com/7ueym5y or by calling 785/220-0733 [ ] California Poppy, a distinctive china design to grace the tables of the Santa Fe Railway’s The California Limited. Un- changed between 1892 and 1971, it is thought to be the longest-running china de- sign ever used on trains. A five-piece place setting, plus numerous filler pieces, is avail- able from the California State Railroad Mu- seum Store (see above). [ ] Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Lackawanna pattern five-piece place setting
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