Iron Horse (restaurant)

The Iron Horse was a hamburger 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]

Iron Horse
The restaurant in April 2000
Restaurant information
Established1971 (1971)
Closed2000 (2000)
Food typeHamburger
Street address311 3rd Avenue South
CitySeattle
StateWashington
CountryUnited States
Coordinates47.599569°N 122.330478°W / 47.599569; -122.330478

After the closure of the Iron Horse, the subsequent closing 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]

The restaurant was located at 311 3rd Avenue South, near the King Street Station.[6]

See also

References
  1. "End of the line for Iron Horse". Seattle Times. November 22, 2000. Retrieved January 19, 2008.
  2. Samson, Kam (2001). Frommer's Seattle and Portland 2001. Wiley & Sons. p. 64. ISBN 076456191X.
  3. "What our writers love this week". Seattle Times. October 31, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  4. Shannon, Robin (2008). Seattle's Historic Restaurants. Arcadia Publishing. p. 87. ISBN 0738559156.
  5. Seely, Mike (September 20, 2010). "SoDo's Orient Express Hopes for Another Trainwreck". Seattle Weekly. Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  6. Crew, Anna (2001). Moneywise Guide to North America. BUNAC. p. 391. ISBN 0952687259.
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