He redesigned the train car as a diner and opened it later that year and simply called it "The Diner". In 1934, Sandwich resident Henry Tattersal bought the train car for $75 dollars and moved it from California to Sandwich. The train car continued on the Burlington line until it was retired in the early 30's. Unfortunately for Teddy Roosevelt, his campaign only split the Republican vote, but he succeeded in getting Taft out of office as Woodrow Wilson became President of the United States. Figuring the train car had good karma since it was used by the last two winners of Presidential elections, he got the car from the Burlington railway and used it to criss-cross the United States for his campaign. When he failed to do so, Roosevelt ran on his own Progressive Party (or "Bull Moose" Party) ticket for the presidency. Roosevelt wasn't happy with the policies that Taft brought forth and he tried to wrestle the Republican Party's 1912 presidential nomination from the President. Taft - Roosevelt's handpicked successor - won the election, as well. The train car was put back into use for another presidential election in 1908 as William Howard Taft's official transportation carriage. In 1904, the train car was given to President Theodore Roosevelt to use during his presidential campaign and returned to the Burlington railway after Roosevelt was elected. It was put into service by the Burlington ( now the Burlington Northern Sante Fe) railroad and was part of their special "Pride of Burlington" train. The former Pullman Palace car was built in 1893 and was initially shown at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago later that year. The defining feature of the Bull Moose Bar and Grille is the distinctive late-19th century railroad car that is part of the restaurant. I was in Naperville for my last stop of a trip into the Chicago area and I decided to take the long way home and stop in at the Bull Moose Bar and Grille to check the place out. I was reading in a western suburban Chicago visitors guide about a place that had a good burger in Sandwich, IL, located just beyond the fringes of the far western suburbs.
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