Diners ate in a train car in 1946, dressed in formalwear and served by waiters in tuxedos.
Diners in the restaurant car on a GWR (Great Western Railway) oil-fired locomotive in 1946.
  • Vintage photos from decades ago show how traveling by train used to be a lot fancier. 
  • First-class cabins were furnished like living rooms and included radio gramophones.
  • Passengers dined on fine china and played cards to pass the time.

Traveling by train was pretty swanky in the early to mid-1900s, and it hasn't gone out of style.