Some people collect stamps, some collect regrets, and some brilliant souls collect actual train cars and turn them into restaurants.
The Derailed Diner in Robertsdale is exactly what happens when someone’s childhood train obsession meets their adult love of good food, and honestly, we’re all better for it.
Look, I’ve eaten in a lot of places over the years, from fancy establishments where the waiter describes your meal like it’s a Shakespearean sonnet to roadside joints where the menu is written in permanent marker on cardboard.
But there’s something genuinely special about eating inside an actual train car that makes you feel like you’re seven years old again, except this time you can reach the table without a booster seat…