Seasonal (Memorial Day Weekend to late September), offers an array of runs that include the Friday to Sunday La Veta Mountaineer and the Fort Garland Limited that allow 2 hour layovers in La Veta or Fort Garland respectively to lunch on your own. Thursdays, mid-June to mid-August a steam train allows a one-hour layover in Monte Vista to eat on your own. The Mountain Rails Live music festival runs, Friday to Sunday, June through August, Alamosa to Fir, include an optional barbecue meal. Saturday evenings, Bistro Service on the Fort Garland Limited bi- level domes offers a private dining room and bar, with upscale menus for breakfast, brunch, and lunch. Wednesday through Sunday a mixed train to Antonito connects with the Cumbres & Toltec and includes Club Car service offering breakfast and/or lite lunches.
Cañon City; Royal Gorge Route Dinner Train; Santa Fe Depot, 401 Water Street; 888/724-5748 or 719/276-4000;
www.royal
gorgeroute.com: Seasonal (mid-March through the end of December), on a regular schedule that expands during peak seasons, offering a range of food services, from a la carte coach seating through optional prepared breakfast and lunch in the Vista- Dome, to wine with appetizers, lunch and dinner trains. All meals prepared on board.
CONNECTICUT
Essex; The Essex Clipper Dinner Train; The Essex Steam Train & River Boat; One Railroad Avenue; 800/377-3987 or 860/767-0103;
www.essexsteamtrain.com: Seasonal dinner trains on a regular schedule (May through October) that expands for mid-summer and fall. “Friday Night Lite,” in July and August offers a lite dinner and a “Murderous Musical Mystery.” Meals are prepared on the train’s 1953 ex- U.S. Army Kitchen Car. Seasonal menus change for spring and fall.
DELAWARE Wilmington; The Dinner Train;
Wilmington & Western Railroad; Greenbank Station at 2201 Newport Gap Pike; 302/998-1930;
www.wwrr.com:
Seasonal (early-May through mid- December) on a varying schedule, a ride-’n’- dine to the Hunter’s Den Restaurant, plus three eat-on-board catered buffet dinner trains, and three Murder Mysteries scheduled
between late-September and
early-November that offer desserts only. FLORIDA
Fort Myers; The Murder Mystery Dinner Train Theater, Seminole Gulf Railway; Colonial Boulevard Depot near the intersection of Metro Parkway and Colonial Blvd; 800/SEM-GULF (736-4853) or 239/275- 8487;
www.semgulf.com: Operates year- around on a regular schedule, plus on selected holidays and for special events. Menus change regularly, with meals prepared to specification on board.
GEORGIA
Cordele; SAM Shortline Excursion Train; 105 East 9th Avenue or 2459 Highway 280 West; 877/427-2457;
www.samshortline.com: Seasonal (March through December), on a varying departure schedule on selected Fridays and
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Saturdays, plus other days on special occasions, a 2¹⁄₄-hour layover in Plains allows sight seeing and optional lunch-time dining at local eating establishments.
IDAHO
Horseshoe Bend; Thunder Mountain Line Railroad; 120 Mill Road; 877/IDA- RAIL (432-7245) or 208/331-1184; www
.thundermountainline.com: Seasonal on a varying Friday-through-Sunday schedule, March into December, offers numerous rail dining formats, including Chuck Wagon Dinner, Wild West Dinner and Picnic, Wine & Dine, and Murder Mystery trains, Sunday Brunch Trains, and others tied to holidays. Conductor Box Lunches are available to purchase on all afternoon excursions.
INDIANA
Connersville; Twilight Limited Train to Dinner; Whitewater Valley Railroad; Connersville Depot between West 4th and West 5th Streets and North Grand Avenue; 765/825-2054;
www.whitewatervalleyrr.org: Seasonal (May through October) on a regular schedule to dine in Laurel, Indiana, at the Laurel Hotel. Occasional special runs at other times of the year.
Jasper; Jasper Ride & Dine; Jasper Train Depot; 201 Mill Street; www
.spiritofjasper.com; 812/482-5959 (City of Jasper): Seasonal (early May through late October), on a varying schedule (Friday through Sunday), dinner and beverage service catered on the train by the Schnitzelbank, a locally owned authentic German restaurant.
Noblesville; Indiana Transportation Museum; North 8th Street at West Clinton Street; 317/773-6000;
www.itm.org:
Seasonal (May through October), on thirteen dates the Pizza Plus Express offers pizza and other menu items from one of three vendors in Tipton. On four Saturdays, June 2 through October 27, the Jeffersonian Train to Dinner operates to Tipton for dinner at the Elks Lodge. Menus vary. Note: Work restoring the exterior of the ITM’s ex- L&N dining car has resulted in the cancellation of most on-board meals for 2012, but check the website for updates on the possible resumption of service.
IOWA
Boone; Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad Dinner Train; 225 10th Street; 800/626- 0319 or 515/432-4249;
www.scenic-
valleyrr.com: Seasonal operation of regularly-scheduled Dinner Trains (April through November), or Dessert Trains and bring-your-own Picnic Trains (both Memorial Day through October), with dinner train frequency increased June through October.
KANSAS
Abilene; Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad; A&SVRR Depot at 417 South Buckeye; 888/426-6687 or 785/263-1077;
www.asvrr.org: Seasonal dinner trains operate on selected Saturdays in May and June, plus September and October. On board meals catered alternately by Applemint Catering (Prime Rib) or Brookville Hotel (Fried Chicken).
KENTUCKY
Bardstown; My Old Kentucky Dinner Train; Bardstown Depot at 602 North Third Street; 866/801-3463 or 502/348- 7300;
www.kydinnertrain.com: Operates year-around on a varying schedule that expands during peak seasons to include weekday runs and trains tied to special events, including Murder Mystery runs and Bourbon-Tasting Dinner Excursions. Meals — lunch and dinner — are prepared on board, and the menu changes seasonally.
New Haven; Kentucky Railroad Museum; 136 South Main Street; 800/272- 0152 or 502/549-5470;
www.kyrail.org: Seasonal, seven murder mystery runs (April through November) combine dinner at the adjoining Sherwood Inn with a train ride during which the crime is solved; plus seven monthly dinner trains (April through October), with food prepared at the Sherwood Inn and finished on board.
MAINE
Rockland-Wiscasset-Bath-Brunswick; Maine Eastern Railroad; 866/637-2457;
www.maineeasternrailroad.com: An operating railroad with one or more regularly scheduled train(s) (May through October, plus December) each way between Brunswick and Rockland, plus Brunswick- Rockland round trips during the North Atlantic Blues Festival (July 14-15), Maine Lobster Festival (August 1-5), and the Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show (August 10-12). During layovers at the various stops, detrain and enjoy a meal, sight see, and shop.
MARYLAND
Cumberland; Western Maryland Scenic Railroad; Western Maryland Station Center, 13 Canal Street; 800/872-4650 or 301/759-4400;
www.wmsr.com: Seasonal (early May through late December), on standard excursions on weekends, and on occasional weekdays, first class passengers enjoy a hot lunch served in the dining car. Meals are catered for service on the train. On a varying schedule (late May through early
December), on selected Saturday
nights, 16 unique murder mysteries with dinner are offered.
Walkersville; Walkersville Southern Railroad; 34 West Pennsylvania Avenue; 301/898-0899 or 877/363-WSRR (9777);
www.wsrr.org: Seasonal (February through October) on a varying schedule, offering Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day, plus a twice-monthly Dinner Train (beginning in May) that includes three Murder Mystery Trains and Fall Foliage (Sundays in October) brunch trains,. Catered meals are finished and served on board.
MASSACHUSETTS
Hyannis; Elegant Dinner Train; Cape Cod Central Railroad; 252 Main Street; 888/797-7245 or 508/771-3800;
www.cape
train.com: Seasonal (early-May through late-October), on a regular schedule that expands during peak seasons to offer the dinner and Sunday Brunch trains; monthly Gourmet Wine Trains (May-October) and Murder Mystery Dinner Trains (September-November); weekly Luncheon
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