0 a part of a train in which passengers are served meals
The trains had no dining cars, so passengers ate in the Cascade Station dining hall with the workers.
Ask the dining car steward to see that he eats dinner on something better than candy bars.
He raced back through two chair cars and a tourist sleeper, and he entered the dining car with an emphasis that kept the screen door swinging for a full half minute.
The dining car has resumed its restaurant appearance, and here is the wedding banquet, instead of the usual fare.
The train is no sooner off than the passengers go to the dining car.
It was probably the lunch wagon's growing resemblance to a railway dining car that suggested the change of name to 'diner' around 1924.
That is also characteristic of the newest style of dining car.
