Columbia Star Dinner Train

The Columbia Star Dinner Train has been featured on the multiple Emmy winning Great Scenic Railway Journeys special on the PBS channel. Click on the image above to go to their website and see the special!!!

All Aboard!

Recapture the romance of a by-gone era while watching the Missouri landscape roll by your window. While on board our guests will be treated to delicious appetizers, drinks and a Chef-prepared elegant four course gourmet meal all prepared right on the train. Prestigious railroad dining is recreated on white linen and fine china by candlelight with exemplary service from our wait staff. Friendly, courteous bartenders will do their part to get your journey off to a cheerful start with only the best brands of beverages from our fully stocked bars.

History

The Columbia Star Dinner Train is comprised of two locomotives and three cars. A locomotive is located on each end of the train so that the train may operate in either direction. Our F-7 locomotives were built by the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors in 1948 and 1953. These locomotives were originally built for the Great Northern Railroad

Our dining cars were built by the Pullman Car Company in 1938 for the Southern Pacific Railroad as coach cars. Later they were converted to dining cars for dinner train service. Originally these cars served on the famous Southern Pacific train named the "Daylight" running between Los Angeles and San Francisco. These cars are unique in that they are articulated, meaning that they share a set of trucks (wheels) between the two car bodies.

Our kitchen car is a former Chicago Burlington and Quincy (CB&Q) baggage car. This car has been converted to a full kitchen in which we prepare all of our meals right onboard the train. The kitchen car is in the middle of the train so meals are served out of both ends of the car to the adjoining dining cars.

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