GET A TASTE OF RAILROAD HISTORY WITH THE DINING CAR HERITAGE SERIES
Relive the days when some of America’s best cuisine was found on railroad dining cars! The Abilene and Smoky Valley’s “Dining Car Heritage” trains are rolling this summer, as our Smoky Valley Limited dinner train features menus from some great passenger trains like the C&NW Twin Cities 400, the Santa Fe Super Chief, the Rock Island Rocket, the Union Pacific’s Portland Rose, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Katy Flyer, and the Missouri Pacific’s Colorado Eagle. Relive this delicious chapter in American railroad history as you ride in air-conditioned comfort across the Smoky Hill River Valley!
THE GREAT PUMPKIN EXPRESS
It’s the GREAT PUMPKIN, Charlie Brown! Join us on the train this Halloween season! The Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad presents “The Great Pumpkin Express,” a train ride for the whole family that seeks to find that eternally elusive Great Pumpkin! The train will visit the punkin’ patch where kids get a trick-or-treat bag and hear a special reading of Schulz’s “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.” Trick or treating, a costume contest and more at the depot and in Old Abilene Town! Trains leave Abilene’s historic Rock Island Depot at 10:00 a.m., 12:00 noon, 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. on the following days:
