All Aboard America! Tour — Exhibit Train 2016

[KnightRail]

The 2016 schedule has been posted to Amtrak's website on the Exhibit Train page. Take note of the four day visit to the Grand Canyon

April 30 - May 1

St. Paul Union Depot Station 90th Anniversary

Saturday: 10 am - 4 pm

Sunday: 11 am - 3 pm

June 11

Brunswick, ME Amtrak Station

1:30 pm - 5:30 pm

June 18

Claremont, NH Amtrak Station

10 am - 4 pm

June 25

Downtown Burlington, VT - Vermont Train Day

10 am - 5 pm

August 6 - 7

Pueblo Railway Museum/Depot 132 W B Street Pueblo, CO

9 am - 4 pm Saturday & Sunday

August 25 - 28

Grand Canyon Railroad Station - Grand Canyon Village, AZ

Fee-free park entrance days

9 am - 6 pm

September 24

Museum of the American Railroad 6465 Page Street Frisco, TX

Free Admission to Museum

9 am - 6 pm

October 1

Galveston Railroad Museum 2602 Santa Fe Place Galveston, TX

Free Admission to Museum

10 am - 5 pm

October 13 - 23

North Carolina State Fair Raleigh, NC

October 29

Seaboard Festival Hamlet, NC

9 am - 5 pm

 

[chrsjrcj]

I kind of like how some of the locations aren't served by Amtrak (downtown Burlington, Pueblo, Galveston). Burlington and Pueblo definitely have potential for intercity rail service, and even Galveston could be a commuter rail terminus in an ideal world.

 

[railiner]

Would be nice if Amtrak could sell space on the ferry moves for us rare mileage fans... it might even pay the expenses...

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Would be nice if Amtrak could sell space on the ferry moves for us rare mileage fans... it might even pay the expenses...

Even if it didn't make financial sense for Amtrak to offer their own through passenger services it might have been possible to offer a private varnish service for third parties to staff and sell. That being said I can imagine it's a bit of a bureaucratic nightmare to schedule and approve an antonymous train for paid passenger service.