Calgary Alberta - It's a gourmet lunch to go like no other.
 
A three-course, two-hour meal, is served in a gleaming vintage railway car as it's pulled by an antique steam engine around Calgary's sprawling Heritage Park.
 
The historical village first offered its time-travelling railway lunch last spring and summer and, after much success, is doing it again starting 24 May 2016.

Tickets are already on sale and likely to go fast.
 
Park spokeswoman Barb Munro says lunch tickets sold out quickly in 2015 and there was a waiting list.
 
"It's such a neat experience, a unique experience that you can't really find anywhere else," she says.
 
The rail car is one of 15 solarium units built by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1929 to take well-to-do tourists through the Rocky Mountains.
 
The cars had expansive windows, mahogany and walnut wood panelling, even a smoking room.
 
"It was all very elegant," Munro said.
 
"It was the 1920s, right? The golden age of luxury."
 
The cars were converted over the years for other uses before they were released from service.
 
In 2011, the River Forth car, sitting in a Calgary rail yard with its doors pulled off and pigeon poop and garbage inside, was sold to Heritage Park for $1.
 
Over the next four years, park workers cleaned it up, chipped away old paint, and found some of the original wood panelling.
 
Munro says one of the panel pieces was shipped to Europe, where the intricate design work was replicated for the entire car.
 
Elegant fixtures, Oriental rugs, and tables covered with crisp, white, linens, with room enough to seat 36 people, eventually transformed the dumpy River Forth into a historic dining car.
 
The cost of the restoration came to about $850,000.
 
Staff also got their hands on old menus, which helped inspire the food selection for the modern railway meal, Munro says.
 
Patrons this year will get to sip wine as they dine on pear and fig salad, pan-seared trout, or filet mignon lyonnaise, with vanilla and toasted almond creme brulee.
 
Most of the food, served by staff in historical uniform, is prepared in the park's main restaurant and finished in a small service kitchen in the dining car.
 
While the train journeys around two kilometres of track, it stops at three stations, allowing other park patrons to get on and off other cars.
 
The range in scenery is sublime, the gleaming Glenmore Reservoir with mountain peaks behind it, the flashy Calgary skyline, the park's historic boardwalk and shops, an antique midway and ferris wheel, First Nations camps with teepees, and horses and grazing cows in a green pasture.
 
When it's not in use, the dining car is parked so other park guests can take a peek.
 
It's also available for rent for private parties and weddings.

If you go:
 
Lunch is served on the River Forth car on Tuesdays, 24 May 2016 through 30 Aug 2016, 11:00 to 13:00.
 
It's also available on the "Railway Days" weekend of Sept. 24-25 Sep 2016, 13:00 to 15:00.
 
The meal costs $129.90 for a table of two or $259.80 for a table of four.
 
A special continental breakfast, with a presentation on railway dining, is also being offered on 24-25 Sep 2016 from 09:30 to 11:00.
 
That cost is $69.90 for a table of two or $139.80 for a table of four.
 
Don't forget, you still need to pay park admission, but get 25 percent off with a meal ticket.
 
To book tickets, call 403-268-8500.
 
Chris Purdy.