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Last Call For Metro Bar Cars Bar cars have been disappearing from commuter rail services in the U.S. On the last bar car out of New York's Grand Central station, a nostalgic crowd raised a last beer to a vanishing institution.

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Last Call For Metro Bar Cars

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Davis Dunavin

Last Call For Metro Bar Cars

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Bar cars have been disappearing from commuter rail services in the U.S. Davis Dunavin rode the last bar car out of New York's Grand Central station, where he found a nostalgic crowd raising a last beer to a vanishing institution.