Next on the List: Train Rides

Train Ride.

We stayed at Whit's End CG.

We stayed here.

All of the others I am familiar with have been mentioned at least once so I won't repeat them, I did not see either of these mentioned (pardon me if they have been)

Blue Ridge Georgia Scenic Railroad, from Blue Ridge, GA to McCaysville, GA/Copperhill, TN

http://www.brscenic.com/

Georgia SAM short line RR that runs from Cordele, the GA Veterans State Park to Plains and Americus.

https://samshortline.com/

Charles

Agawa Canyon out of Sault Ste. Marie is a 114 mile one way day trip into the Canadian Wilderness. Well worth the trip.

In October of 2016, I led our car club on a trip to Chama, NM. We rode in a 1934 Galloping Goose railcar from Chama to Cumbres Pass and back through the most gorgeous aspen I have ever seen. The C&TS RR and the Galloping Goose Historical Society run this trip every fall and it is worth every penny!

SAM short line form Cordele GA to Plains. Train makes a stop and picks up at GA Veterans State Park. Worth a ride if you are spending time in the area.

You'd think someone would have come up with a website of all the active tourist trains in North America, best I can find is the Top 10, or similar.

BB_TX wrote:
I definitely recommend the Cumbres & Toltec Steam Railroad. You ride the train one way and a bus the other. I recommend the train from Antonito to Chama and the bus back. That direction you start in the high arid desert like area and climb into and thru the mountain passes, gorges, and high alpine meadows, before descending in Chama. Going out on the open air car is great for picture taking.

You can also ride from either end to the midpoint (Ozier) and return via train rather than the bus. BTW, the food at Ozier is excellent!

Agawa Canyon Tour Train Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada - right over the border from Michigan - Breakfast on the train is included - great trip

We had a fantastic ride about 5 or 6 years ago, we, read that as ME and 4 women, spent a few days at Chena Hot Springs doing some Aurora watching and then the AK RR from Fairbanks to Anchorage. That was more exciting than the Trans- Siberian RR. They have full service parlor car and they open one side of the baggage car and allow you to go back there and take photos or just watch the critters and scenery. They even put out folding chairs in the baggage car. It's a White Flag train and also delivers the Sunday paper to couple of 80+ years on their homestead miles from any other folks.

We not only stopped to let a family of four off in a snow field so they could do some back country snow camping, we picked up a group of about 6 or 8 twenty somethings who had been out camping.

Stopped in Denali and took a lot of photos of this big mountain covered in snow but without is normal cloud cover.

This past fall we took the White Pass and Yucon Route tourist train. Really a cool trip. Much better than driving it in the MoHo. I did get this shot of Big Foot.



I'm trying to get the DW interested in Verde Valley and seeing as how we're heading that way next week...

Smoky Mountain Railway out of Bryson city NC