I'm sure that they haven't since the diner is now sitting in Bear redone as a mock up for the new version of a Viewliner Diner, should Amtrak ever find the money to actually buy some.Has Amtrak ever considered lending or renting the Viewliner Diner to a tourist railroad? Many such have their own shops and skilled volunteers who machine odd parts all the time to maintain their old coaches and locomotives. So a tourist railroad with a strong shop crew could get the car in running condition and make use of it; it would be a great ridership draw and revenue source for the tourist railroad to have a functional full diner; and it would be great PR and free advertising for Amtrak. How is this not a win-win?That's not a mock up, it's the real McCoy, the real thing. It ran in revenue service for a while.There was a viewliner dinning car mock up
The original diner had a lot of issues, which is why it was retired rather quickly. The kitchen layout I understand was rather bad, meaning that things were in the wrong place making it very hard to be efficient.