Train engineer gets lunch...

Cute.

That's pretty funny.

 

One Amtrak trip out of Chicago, the club car ran out of adult beverages by the time we reached Kansas City.  Some enterprising passengers took up a collection and dashed over to nearby convenience store during the layover.  The conductor was not pleased and threatened to leave them behind.  Lucky for them, switching moves took longer than normal, and many thirsty folks were happy to see them board with several chilly  cases.  The drinks did not last very long either! 

Don't laugh. The CSX branch line ran behind my office and the engineers would stop and idle while one guy would go to the 7/11 next door and get coffee!

The next town up from where I live has a restaurant called the Bowmanstown Diner, and the trains stop there every now and then for a meal.

Conrail train crews used to patronize Schwambach's Restaurant when stopped at a signal where the Belt Line around Reading met the Pottsville-Reading-Philly Main Line north of Reading, along Route 61. The spot was nicknamed "CP Schwambach's."

That's funny...hey guys gotta eat right.....

In the late '70's, I used to ride with an SP local crew from time to time in Galena Park, TX.  One of the industries they switched, American Plant Food, had an employee cafeteria.  The crew would cut the engines off the train and run light into the APF plant site, park the engines in the loading area and go to the cafeteria for "beans".

 

Curt

That is funny, but it is fairly common to stop and "pick up" goodies along the way while running a train, if time allows.  Being an engineer, I know where all the places to stop and run in to get a coffee or snack if necessary!  There are a couple of Dunkin Donuts and 7-Elevens along my line that I (and my crew) can go when the opportunity arises!  It's all part of "qualifying" the line!

 

Thanks for posting.

NS crews have been known to stop Between Duncanon and Banks on the Pittsburgh Line at CP-Sheetz....

 

I seem to remember being on a steam excursion back in the early 90's where a call was placed to a near by KFC for all the 3 Piece Chicken dinner's they had.....to go of course

CP-Sheetz?  They should try the BBQ just North of there!  Plenty of railfans to watch the train while they run across the road for lunch.

I used to work for a major airline. There was a pilot who would take and airplane out of ORD with a semi-worn tire, or somethind like that, then insist that it be changed in St. Louis so he could go to the employees caffeteria and get the fine breakfast they served there. He did not care about the delayed passengers. So train engineers aren't the only ones..........

Was there not a place on the MP/Cotton Belt Miss R line where they actually hooped up FOOD to the crews per union agreement!

I don't know if it was officially a union agreement, Dominic, but it was definitely done on the old Missouri-Illinois (a Mop subsidiary) at a town the name of which escapes my fading memory.  Southern Pacific and Santa Fe trains received sack lunches from Carls Jr. at Mojave, California in a similar sanctioned practice arranged and paid for by the SP.    The crew told the DS how many meals they would require and they were ready when the train arrived at Mojave.  It was burger/fries/Coke, no special ordering.  It was worth it to the railroad to keep trains moving over the single-track route through the Tehachapi Mountains between Mojave and Bakersfield.

 

However, the video shows a more unusual type of quick stop --the crew member climbs back aboard an Alco diesel which clears its raspy throat as it pulls away from the stop.  I don't think anybody on either the M-I or ATSF/SP got food on the fly while operating an Alco.