The Iron Horse was a

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in Seattle, Washington, established in 1971 by Charlie Maslow. Located in

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, food orders at the restaurant were delivered by

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s which moved along a track that circled the dining area. 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

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, as reasons for its shuttering. After the closure of the Iron Horse, the subsequent closing of another train-themed Seattle restaurant –

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– prompted the '' Seattle Weeklys 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". The restaurant was located at 311 3rd Avenue South, near the King Street Station.

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Video of the interior of the Iron Horse in 1998
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