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If you have made your trans-Missouri journeys only since the new era of dining-cars, there is a quantity of things you have come too late for, and will never know.

From Lin McLean by Wister, Owen

There were, of course, neither dining-cars nor sleeping cars, no heating, and no toilet accommodation.

From The Days Before Yesterday by Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord

As far as the Don we used the ordinary dining-cars; but beyond that point dining-cars did not run, and meals were supposed to be taken at the station restaurants.

From Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

The trains to Euston with their dining-cars fascinated her, and she had been heard to express a great desire to have her dinner on the train.

From The Setons by Douglas, O.

They came within sight of the bleached-out dining-cars.

From The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity by Coombs, Francis Lovell