al private car chefs. But of course, once you fall into one of these sites, you are lured to other entertain- ing selections as well — and not one of them offered to put me in touch with “hot women nearby” (okay, “Late Night Date Night on Amtrak” was a temptation). First, there was “Heartland Food Pre- pared and Served on Amtrak” (www.you
tube.com/watch?v=r9GEKalLOTc), a 4:47- minute report by America’s Heartland’s Ak- iba Howard that details how Amtrak’s din- ing cars are stocked, documents chefs at work, and showcases Amtrak Executive Chef Daniel Malzahn doing his magic in a Superliner diner. Then there’s the first 2:50 minutes of the 9:57-minute long “February Episode B&O Rail- roadMuseum TV Network with Michael Gross” (
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzOJcjBnFk8), which details the role of African-American dining car employees on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (an additional 1:40 minutes reports on other work done by African- Americans on B&O trains). Minutes 4:30 through
9:40 present Owner/Chef John
Shields of Gertrudes working in a dining car kitchen to prepare Baltimore & Ohio Clam Chowder, a creation of one of the B&O’s African-American chefs and reprinted in Tom Greco and Karl Spence’s Dining on the B&O.
Also on the menu scroll, conveniently lo- cated to the right on my screen, “Dinner on Amtrak Auto Train” (
www.youtube.com/ watch?v=WGLupFLTiAM) at 3:58-minutes, and “Dinner — Amtrak #92 ‘Silver Star’,” at 1:13-minutes, both by cnIGNERnh, the 1:27- minute “Amtrak Prototype Viewliner Dining Car” from funwithwillandzach, and, well. . . . Now an hour into what was to be a one- minute look-see, I can hear Steve Barry tap- ping his foot. (Actually, this would be a good place to remind folks that if you are reading the R&R digital edition you can go directly to the videos by tapping on the links. —S.B.) If you’ve found favorite rail dining video footage on line, send the link and we’ll share it here.
Rockwell Postscript About the Normal Rockwell painting — Say- ing Grace — that was mentioned here last month because a busy railroad yard is visi- ble through the restaurant window: It far exceeded expectations at auction. Recall the previous record for a Rockwell painting had been $15.4 million? Saying Grace—techni- cally railroad art — sold at auction for $46.1 million on December 4.
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