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YOU COULD CONSIDER a majority of this month’s column to be an extension of last month’s proposed “next big thing,” because whether you operate a dinner train, or a mu- seum or excursion without food service, it provides a way to boost gift shop sales. But if you are only an armchair railway gour- mand, consider it a shopping list. Here, then, in checklist format, is an array of items to enhance your enjoyment of rail dining:
Cookbooks: Titles currently in print are in boldface. Out-of-print titles may be avail- able from such used book dealers as Powell’s Books (
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www.abebooks.com) and elsewhere: [ ] C&O Dining Car Recipes, a reprint of the 1947 Chesapeake & Ohio food service manual from the C&O Historical Society,
www.chessieshop.com or 800/453-2647. [ ] Dining by Rail, by James D. Porter-
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field, a history of eating on the train accom- panied by 330 recipes from 48 railroads of the “Golden Age” of American passenger railroading, published by St. Martin’s Press. [ ] Dining Car Cuisine, by James E. Maf- fett and published by Silver Spring Press, is a spiral-bound compilation of several dozen recipes from a number of railroads. [ ] Dining Car In Opposite Direction, writ- ten and self-published by railroadiana deal- er John ‘Grandpa’ White, a spiral softbound collection of memorabilia and recipes. [ ] Dining Car to the Pacific: The Fa-
mously Good Food Of The Northern Pa- cific Railway, by William A. McKenzie, an absorbing account of the evolution of one railroad’s dining car operations and 150 recipes for its most appealing dishes, from the University of Minnesota Press. [ ] Dining Cars and Depots, compiled and published by Patricia B. Mitchell, offers
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historic and personal anecdotes as well as 21 recipes. [ ] Dining on the B&O: Recipes and Sidelights from a Bygone Age, by Thomas J. Grecco and Karl D. Spence, offers original B&O recipes and modern interpretations, with photographs, commentary on the tech- nical aspects of cooking on a moving train, “service notes” used by chefs, stewards and waiters, and a glossary of cooking terms, from Johns Hopkins University Press. [ ] Dining on the Shore Line Route:
The History and Recipes of the New Haven Railroad Dining Car Depart- ment, by Marc Frattasio, a well-illustrated history of the New York, New Haven & Hart- ford Railroad’s dining operations, with se- lected recipes for many of the railroad’s most popular menu items, from TLC Publishing. [ ] Dining on the UP, a reproduction of
the Union Pacific Railroad’s Dining Car Manual of Recipes and Service Instructions, published by the Cheyenne Depot Museum Foundation and available from the Founda- tion at
http://tinyurl.com/9sfncr7 or the Cheyenne Depot Museum Gift Shop by call- ing 307/638-6338. [ ] Dinner in the Diner: Great Railroad
Recipes of All Time, by Will C. Hollister, this Grandfather of the genre offers an assort- ment of recipes — some of them for institu- tional portions — from 19 railroads, original- ly published in 1965 by Trans-Angelo Books. [ ] Dinner is Served: Fine Dining Aboard the Southern Pacific, by Jim A. Loveland, a history of the Espee’s dining car operation, with recipes from Golden West Books. [ ] First Call to Dinner, a reprint of the
Milwaukee Road’s 1960 food service manu- al, from the Milwaukee Road Historical As- sociation. [ ] From the Dining Car: The Recipe and
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