blending sweetly in the evening air, while our train, with its great, glaring Polyphemus eye, lighting up long vistas of prairie, rushed into the night and the Wild. Then to bed in luxurious couches, where we slept the sleep of the just and only awoke the next morning (Monday) at eight o’clock, to find ourselves at the crossing of the North Platte, three hundred miles from Omaha — fifteen hours and forty minutes out [author’s emphasis].” Another Blip on the Radar: Year-
around, on the second Sunday of each month, the Central Coast Railroad Festival Wine Rail Excursion puts a maximum of 24 guests on board Amtrak’s Coast Starlight for a trip up or down the Cuesta Grade — de- pending on where you board — between Pa- so Robles and San Luis Obispo. The trip typ- ically includes a stop at one or two rail related wineries, plus a complimentary wine tasting, light lunch snacks, rail history sites, and a private Ride-On Transportation bus trip in the opposite direction from your rail trip. Also typical: the trips sell out. Book ear- ly. For more information, go to www.
ccrrf.com, or call 805/773-4173. Meanwhile, the Central Coast Railroad Festival in San Luis Obispo and Northern Santa Barbara Counties, California, will be held October 10-14, 2013. Although a broad-based event, it’s primary focus is on various rail-related sites in and around San Luis Obispo and it’s historic railroad district. You have plenty of time to manipulate your calendar. And One More: The Tavares, Eustis & Gulf Railroad, a year-around excursion out of Tavares, Fla., operates a variety of special event trains that include pizza trains, wine & cheese trains, rails & ales trains, and oth- ers tied to specific holidays. Go to www.
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or call
352/742-7200 for the latest information on these special events trains. The railroad’s 1907 Baldwin-built 2-6-0, No. 2, lays claim to being the only standard gauge wood-burn- ing locomotive in regular service in America. It was featured in such films as True Grit, Appaloosa, There Will be Blood and 3:10 to Yuma.
They are multiplying. A Question Answered:We wondered, in the September 2012 issue, which American dinner train was the longest continuously operating train running under the same name. Recall that Leslie Holloway, co-owner of the Café Lafayette Dinner Train in Lin- coln, New Hampshire, raised that question when she said they’d begun in 1988 and that 2012 was their 24th year in business. Nick Fowler questioned my arithmetic, and right- ly so, pointing out that if they’d begun in 1988, this would be their 25th year. To clari- fy that issue, I checked again with Leslie and learned they’d actually celebrated the train’s 23rd Anniversary on August 5, 2012. Turns out, its first run was on that date in 1989. Then I heard from Ira Schreiber, a co- owner of the Fremont Dinner Train, who pointed out that it did begin operations in 1988. That would appear to make it the old- est dinner train in America running under the same name. But wait, there’s more! (Sor- ry, I have direct marketing in my back- ground.) The Fremont Dinner Train ceased operations on September 30, 2012, in prepa- ration for its move to Baldwin City, Kan. So as we go to press, it appears the Cafe Lafayette Dinner Train can now claim to be the longest running under the same owner and name. Corrections anyone?
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