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By Jean Brandau, About.com Guide
Chet Langley checks the dining car before passenagers start arriving. The dining car holds 40 passenagers. In the 1940's during WWII, the dining cars were used as hospital cars where wounded soldiers were taken, on stretchers with nurses in attendance, and transported to various hospitals along the train's route.
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