Capital City Diner, loaded on the moving truck about 1 a.m. Tuesday. (Photo via Matt Ashburn)

OK, so the guessing game over the ultimate fate of the Capital City Diner was over before you could say “more waffles.” But rejoice! It’s now official that the 1940s-era silver car originally imported from Upstate New York will remain in the District for the next chapter of its life.

Matt Ashburn, who opened the diner in 2010 at 1050 Bladensburg Road NE, has sold it to Edens, a South Carolina-based company that is developing Union Market, a food emporium in the Capital City Market, a new retail district it is building on Florida Avenue between Fifth and Sixth streets NE on the site of the D.C. Farmers Market, which was damaged in a fire last October.

The Post’s Tim Carman reports that Edens purchased the diner from Ashburn on eBay for about $40,000 and moved it 1.5 miles from its original location to its new home early Tuesday morning. Plans for the diner car’s next incarnation are still in the works, although it appears a former José Andrés understudy will be involved, Carman reports:

Edens is still not sure what it will do with the diner yet, but the spokeswoman said the developer plans to “preserve it and incorporate it somehow into the Union Market redevelopment.” Edens recently hired Richard Brandenburg , former chef for Cafe Atlantico, the Penn Quarter restaurant that morphed into America Eats Tavern last year. He will no doubt have some role in the future of the diner, which eases the mind of at least one person: Cap City’s former owner.

At least we know where the diner will reside, and it for sure kills any rumors that it was going to be a Columbia Heights-based Asian fusion and Jewish deli mashup.