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Celebrate the Holidays with a Train Ride & Fine Dining
Christmas Dinner train trip includes a four-course dining experience onboard restored dining and pullman cars. The excursion trains depart from Chattanooga’s Grand Junction Station, traveling at a leisurely pace through portions of urban East Chattanooga before reversing direction and returning to Grand Junction. The travel time is just right for a complete meal on a vintage dining car.
Our Christmas Dinner Trains are one of our most popular excursions and for good reason! Our Dining Car Superintendent and his team of Dining Car Stewards and Chefs provide exceptional customer service and delicious food all prepared and served in historic dining cars. A meal on the Dinner Train is like stepping back in time and the perfect way to celebrate a special occasion!
The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum is pleased to offer this unique opportunity for patrons to enjoy not only a rail excursion trip but also fine dining en route while the train travels along the rails. We encourage you to choose your entrée when booking your tickets. You may choose from true vintage dining in the Dining Car (four to a table) or Pullman Car Clover Colony (two per table for a slight premium charge). NOTE: Passengers may book a dining car table with only 2 people. We will not seat you with anyone not in your party.
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ENTREE CHOICES:
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Pan-seared Airline Chicken with parmesan sauce served with sautéed green beans and garlic herb mashed potatoes
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Burgundy Braised Beef with mushroom demi-glace served with sautéed green beans and garlic herb mashed potatoes
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Southern Shrimp and Grits with andouille tomato cream
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Vegetarian Zucchini Lasagna
BEVERAGES:
Water
Coffee
Lemonade
Iced Tea (Sweet or Unsweet)Onboard the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Dinner Train, you can enjoy a variety of drinks:
- Wine – $10 per glass
- Josh Cellars Rosé
- Ecco Domani Pinot Grigio
- Alamos Malbec (Mendoza, Argentina)
- Champagne – $10 per glass
- Montmartre Brut
- Liquor – $12 per glass
- Jameson Whiskey
- Coffee – $8 per cup
- Baileys Coffee
These options are available to complement your dining experience for a delightful evening aboard the Dinner Train.
DESSERT:
One dessert per person. Dessert options rotate seasonally. Passengers will select their desserts on the train. -
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We do not have a formal dress code for the dinner train, but most passengers seem to enjoy dressing up a bit.
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NOTE: The Dining and Pullman seating are in different cars. You will not be seated together if you select different seating types.
Passengers may choose from true vintage dining in the Dining Car (four to a table) or the smaller tables for two in Pullman Car Clover Colony.
Dining Car Table Ticket (Seats up to 4 passengers):
Southern Railway 3158/Travelers Fare
Pullman Section Table (Seats 2 passengers):
Southern Pacific Railroad 97/Clover Colony
What is a Pullman car?
- Pullman-Standard continued manufacturing sleeping cars and other passenger and freight railroad cars until 1980. For nearly a year at the end of World War II the United States government banned sleeping cars for runs of less than 450 miles (720 km).
What did a Pullman car look like?
- During the day, the sleeper looked like a regular, if especially lavish, passenger car, but during the night it transformed into a 2-story hotel on wheels. Seats were unfolded into lower sleeping berths, while upper berths, instead of lowering from the ceiling on pulleys, folded out from it. Learn more about our Pullman.
Interesting history of our Pullman car:
- Southern Pacific Railroad 97/Clover Colony was used during the filming of Marilyn Monroe, “Some Like It Hot” movie. Click here to watch the movie clip.
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The trains board at our Grand Junction depot, located at 4119 Cromwell Road in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattanooga is in the Eastern Time Zone. Please check the calendar for dates of operation and departure times.
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