2024 New England Fall Colors by Rail

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Special Interest Tours

Oct 4 - 11, 2024

Group size: 15 - 40

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About this trip

Join this fully private car adventure to spend the colorful fall season exploring the best of New England's scenic railways and museums. Enjoy incredible adventures on narrow gauge, cog railways steam charters and more!

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What’s included

7 Nights Hotel

2 Nights Hyatt Place Portland, 3 Nights Lake Opechee Inn and Spa, 2 Nights Lord Camden Inn,
Ground Transportation

Private Cars on all Trains and Private Coach Bus 9/30-10/5.The hotel shuttle will provide transfers to/from the Portland airport and Amtrak station on 9/29 & 10/6
2 Meals Daily

Breakfast and either lunch of dinner on full tour days
Boat Cruise Dinner

On the Opening NIght
1 Breakfast

On the morning of departure
Maine Narrow Gauge

Private Steam Charter with photo runby
Seashore Trolley Museum

Private Tour and Trolley Ride
Hobo & Winnipesaukee RR

Private Car Turkey Dinner Train around Lake Winnipesaukee
Mt Washington Cog

Private Shop Tour & Steam Train Ride
Conway Scenic

A full day in private cars -Includes the pass through the Crawford Notch
WWF Railroad

Private shop tour and steam charter with photo runbys.
Belfast & Moosehead

Private Charter Rail Excursion with photo runbys
Boothbay Rail Village

With a Shop Tour
Cafe Lafayette

Private car dinner train on the Hobo Railroad. Named a top 4 dinner train in the world by Wall Street Journal
Lobster Bake Dinner

At Boothbay Rail Village
Visit to Bar Harbor

Guided Park Trolley Tour
Pre-Tour Transportation

Transportation to/from Portland. We can help arrange flights by request.
Additional Alcohol
Personal Items

Purchases of a personal nature

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Itinerary

Day 1 - Oct 4th Arrive in Portland - Private Sunset Cruise & Welcome Dinner

Arrive in Portland and get settled at the hotel. We will provide shuttles on this day from the Portland airport and railway station to the hotel.

In the evening get acquainted with the Trains Magazine special guest and your fellow tour guests while we will enjoy a private sunset harbor cruise with drinks, followed by our welcome dinner.

Day 2 - Oct 5th Seashore Trolley Museum and Winnipesaukee Scenic Railway

First we’ll make our way to the world’s oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles, the Seashore Trolley Museum. While the main focus of the collection is trolley cars, it also includes rapid transit trains, interurban cars, trolley buses, and motor buses.

After a drive to New Hampshire, in the late afternoon, we’ll enjoy a private car excursion the famous Turkey Dinner Train which journeys around beautiful lake Winnipesaukee. After dinner, we’ll set into the Lake Opechee Resort for a 3-night stay.

Day 3 - Oct 6th Conway Scenic

Today’s agenda includes a Conway Scenic excursion private cars. This beautiful adventure will include their valley train excursion, followed by their Mountaineer, which includes a ride through the spectacular Crawford Notch.

Day 4 - Oct 7th Mt. Washington Cog Railway

We start the day on the world’s first cog railway. We’ll travel by bus to the base of Mt. Washington, the highest peak in NH, at 6,288 feet. Upon arrival we’ll be treated to a private shop tour. Afterwards, we will board our private car on the cog for the ride up behind steam.

Following our descent, we return to Lincoln for a special evening aboard the Cafe Lafayette Dinner Train. Enjoy a 4-course, seasonally-inspired, gourmet meal as we take in the views from 1950’s restored vintage rail cars.

Day 5 - Oct 8th Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway

We begin our day with a trip to the impressive Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway, a re-creation of a rural 2-foot gauge line that operated from 1894 to 1933 and was revived starting in 1989. Here we will enjoy a private steam charter with runbys followed by a shop tour.

Next, we’ll travel back in time at Boothbay Railway Village where over 30 acres are dedicated to the restoration and preservation of Maine railroad history. Explore the village, catch a ride on a two-footer and chat with the mechanics on a shop tour, and enjoy the model railroad village.

Dinner tonight will be a private lobster bake served at the the rail village.

Day 6 - Oct 9th Bar Harbor

Today we will drive to Mount Desert Island for a guided tour of Acadia National Park. After the park tour guests will have free time on their own to explore the historic town of Bar Harbor and enjoy lunch on their own.

Day 7 - Oct 10th Belfast & Moosehead Railroad

We’ll begin the day with a private train charter and shop tour with the Belfast & Moosehead Railway, which travels through bucolic forests and lakes.

In the afternoon we will make our way back to Portland for our final train excursion, a steam charter with the Maine Narrow Gauge Railway.

At the conclusion of the charter we will transfer to our Portland hotel for our farewell dinner and final hotel stay.

Day 8 - Oct 11th Farewell

Breakfast will be provided at the hotel and shuttles will be available for guests to transfer to the airport and Amtrak station at their leisure.