Here are the only two photos that I could salvage from that focus-challenged camera I used on the interior dinner train shots. The date stamp is bogus.
Guests start to arrive. This car is Meriden. You can see the stained glass panel is missing in this car behind my seat but there is a nice custom panel with the RR name at the real of the car. The seats were super comfortable. The decor understated but tasteful; the mahogany in great shape:
I got to look at this wonderful New Haven poster while dining:
When I got home, I created this homage to the dinner trip. Notice how my oversized, non-scale Lionel 40-ton GE looks just like an 80-ton GE? In other words, it's perfect! The headlight placement and other details also matched the actual locomotive used to pull the train. If I can ever manage to get the car bodies apart, I'll fill the cars with people to complete the scene:
