Big Train Tours: Union Pacific Dining Car No. 4801

[@johnlaycock4362]

This is a fascinating and informative presentation on UP Dining Car No. 4801. Your review of the history of dining cars in general and this car in particular is bittersweet. There really was a "golden age" of train travel. I am old enough to remember traveling by train from my home in Philadelphia to my grandparents' home in Cocoa, Florida (now the Space Coast). Great food and great service were part of the experience. Now things have changed. Last week I completed an Amtrak journey from Michigan to San Francisco to LA to Michigan. The food was nothing to write home about. In fairness, Amtrak is short on staff like so many other businesses, and this impacts food quality too. But it's well to remember what train travel was like 90 years ago. Maybe, just maybe, this is an idea whose time will come again. Thanks for the video!

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

If the museum decided to scrap the diner, they would not want it to fall into the hands of a rival museum. I would go into there with sledgehammer, axe, and crowbar and *completely smash* everything apart. Then the diner would be scrapped with torchmen and grapple. The pieces would then be sent for melting down.

[@charlessmedmor220]

This is an excellent video; I am grateful. It is clear how much work goes into researching, writing and making such professional videos . I thank all of the people who contributed to this very enjoybable presentation. I will now look for other videos by your museum and will put The Colorado Railroad Mudseum on my "must do" list for my next trip to Colorado. T H A N K Y O U ! !

[@redtag501]

This is a terrific video and nice restoration of UP Dining Car 4801. I recall having traveled Pullman a number of times in both directions between Chicago and Portland during the 1950s to as late as 1964 with my parents and siblings aboard UP's Domeliner City of Portland. The ACF built Dome Dining Car was a unique and delightful feature of this train.

[@anotherdejavu]

I was hoping for an actual video tour of the car. But I still enjoyed the video.

[@Benvolio1]

What a shame the glory days of the original private railroads ever ended.

[@johndough9763]

I really enjoy these Big Train Tour videos. Thanks for doing them.

[@gonebamboo4116]

Thanks Paul, your big train vids are always great.

[@ironhorsethrottlemaster5202]

Awesome video I got to ride on the Amtrak and the observation car was definitely my favorite car

[@Hero1117a]

Thank you, another great video

[@johnguard2050]

Thanks very interesting

[@JackF99]

Very interesting and well done thank you. Full of information! I'd suggest as a possible improvement: music more appropriate to the era being presented.

[@odiecalodie]

City Of Portland and the City Of St Louis.

[@robertmoir5695]

I remember these passenger trains long ago when I was growing up I wish they were still around Of course Amtrak is n t so bad

[@Eugen717]

12.50 why is Yuri Gagarin in this pic XD

[@daniellittle3117]

Narrator too slow, appears needing a shave

[@locojohn6637]

Packed with RR history. Please consider changing the background music to a more appropriate era. Swing music of the 1940’s would have been great to start out. Then slowly change the genre as you narrate into the later times of the car. Excellent video.