Elizabeth Express - Refurbished Rail Car Diner

Another insured restaurant made for another happy business owner! After a year of renovations, an old railroad car is now a new restaurant in downtown Elizabeth, at the corner of South Third and Market Street.

The Elizabeth Express Kitchen Car had its soft opening this past summer as the menu and hours were finally worked out. The past year has been a labor of love to get the business going.

“It was a rail kitchen car, or kitchen mess, that was from the Pittsburgh area. We think it was from the 1940s,” said Gabriel Taylor, who designed the new restaurant along with a team of local supporters. “It had a real kitchen in it and a seating area for the staff. Our intention was to gut it and use it as a take-out diner.”

Taylor said that when crews began gutting the kitchen car they found the names of some of the old railroaders written underneath the paneling. Preparations for the new diner began in May 2019 with the preparation of the lot, which was just a vacant grass lot.

“We decided where the train car was going to sit and built a foundation for it and the pavilion. All the utilities are underground. That part of it took months,” Taylor said.

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