The Pacific Dining Car
Last night I did a quick search on the Pacific Electric Railway and stumbled on this awkward looking but interesting gem once located in Los Angeles, CA:
The "trained" eye will notice that the proportions and windows are all "wrong" but curiously, the building has steel wheels. I would call this an "on-site" diner in the tradition of restaurants that were built on-site, rather than in a factory, but were made to look like a factory-made diner, rail car, or trolley.
According to the Pacific Dining Car restaurant's website, this building was inspired by a rail car restaurant that the owners saw while living in New York. It was built in 1921 and designed to be like a rail car but with more interior space.
What's particularly interesting is that it was built with steel wheels so that it could be moved about to different rented lots. In other words, it was built like a rail car but with the traditional wheels of a true diner (restaurant), in order to be moved about easily. In fact, it was moved once -- so those wheels were a very smart idea.
You can read all about the original restaurant here. They are still in business and have a second restaurant in Santa Monica. (Note that the intro says that this restaurant was "born in a railway train car" and then goes on to say it was built from scratch. Sigh. 
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