The Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society was formed in 2001 with the goal to restore and recreate an original Erie Lackawanna passenger train, with a fully operational dining car as the centerpiece. Not only would the train look authentic on the outside, but the experience of riding inside the train would also be authentic to the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Today, the organization owns ten passenger cars and continues to purchase, restore and operate historic equipment. They host stationary dinner events in their restored dining cars. On occasion, they also run dinner excursions over the route that the equipment originally operated over.