Ride the rails and bring home a pumpkin
Approximately 45 mins + 20-min pumpkin patch stop
Train ride, Pumpkin
Set out on a fall rail excursion with a stop at the pumpkin patch. Before boarding, explore the grounds and look over the locomotives and rolling stock in the yard.
FALL-Aboard! Travel over track that the Pennsylvania Railroad originally built in 1872. Come see our turn-of-the- century railroad station and tool house. Ride in vintage 1920s passenger cars or on an open-air flatcar as your rail excursion runs out into picturesque Maryland farm country. During your excursion, the train will stop and passengers will disembark at our new pumpkin patch! Each guest will get to choose a pumpkin to take home.
Rides last about 45 minutes, plus an approximately 20 minute layover at the pumpkin patch – Rain or Shine!
Runs rain or shine. No refunds. Cancel Coach or Parlor Car tickets at least 24 hours before departure for a credit minus the handling fee. Caboose cancellations require at least 7 days' notice for a credit minus the handling fee. No credits for later cancellations. Credits expire one year after issue.
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No, not in the Coach or Caboose cars. Use the portable toilets near the museum, across the street from the station, before boarding.
Free parking is available in the grassy lot next to the station. Follow the train parking signs. If that lot is full, use the additional gravel parking across the street and behind the brick museum building.
The enclosed passenger and caboose cars are heated in colder weather. Only the Southampton parlor car has air conditioning.
Walkersville Southern Railway, 34 West Pennsylvania Ave., Walkersville, MD 21793
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