Traditional dining is back on Amtrak as of June 23 on six long-distance routes. Sleeper car customers traveling west of Chicago will have white tablecloth service with a new selection of elegant meals ...

Have you ever fantasized about riding in a train and having a meal in the diner car, just like they do in old movies like “Murder on the Orient Express,” “White Christmas” and “Strangers on a Train”?

Harrison Keely’s most fond memories of riding Amtrak all include snapshots of the dining car. The shiny silverware and white linens. Enjoying thick slices of French toast covered with powdered sugar ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

Mike Diago is a writer and high school social worker living in the Hudson Valley with his wife and two sons, and has been an Eater contributor since 2021. In August 2005, I rode an Amtrak overnight ...

Amtrak is doing away with its iconic dining car on overnight trains traveling on the East Coast, instead replacing them with "flexible dining services" of ready-to-serve food. The dining cars have ...