The Iron Horse was a restaurant in Seattle, Washington established in 1971 by Charlie Maslow.[1] Located in Pioneer Square, food orders at the restaurant were delivered by model trains which moved along a track that circled the dining area.[2][3][4] The Iron Horse closed in 2000, its then-owners citing increasing rents created by the dot com boom, combined with a loss of event business occasioned by the demolition of the Kingdome, as reasons for its shuttering.[1]
Ten years after the closure of the Iron Horse, the closure of another train-themed Seattle restaurant - Andy's Diner - prompted the Seattle Weekly's Mike Seely to eulogize that in "the sweet hereafter ... the Big Engineer in the sky makes a choice between Andy's and the Iron Horse".[5]
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- ^ a b "End of the line for Iron Horse". Seattle Times. November 22, 2000. Retrieved January 19, 2008.
- ^ Samson, Kam (2001). Frommer's Seattle and Portland 2001. Wiley & Sons. p. 64. ISBN 076456191X.
- ^ "What our writers love this week". Seattle Times. October 31, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
- ^ Shannon, Robin (2008). Seattle's Historic Restaurants. Arcadia Publishing. p. 87. ISBN 0738559156.
- ^ Seely, Mike (September 20, 2010). "SoDo's Orient Express Hopes for Another Trainwreck". Seattle Weekly. Retrieved January 19, 2018.