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Excursion Trains - White Mountains NH Region

Winter Journey - Mt. Washington Cog Railway - Bretton Woods, NH
Mount Washington Cog Railway

Off Route 302 Bretton Woods, NH, 03589 Phone: 603-278-5404 Toll-Free: 800-922-8825

Take a train trip 4,000 feet up Mt. Washington on this historic cog railway

Powerful biodiesel locomotives ensure that the Mount Washington Cog Railway is open for business all winter long. Shorter excursions, from the Marshfield Base Station to the newly redesigned and expanded Waumbek Station, are held seven days a week, all winter long at reduced fares. Park free at the base station and stroll through the Cog Railway Museum, where you’ll learn about this historic railway, the first mountain-climbing cog railway in the world and the second steepest with an average grade of 25 percent. Board the train for a one-hour round trip to Waumbek (elevation, 4,000 feet), where you’ll enjoy panoramic mountain vistas from the station’s alpine meadow setting, along with warming huts, complimentary hot refreshments and a blazing fire pit.
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At North Conway Station - Conway Scenic Railroad - North Conway, NH
Conway Scenic Railroad

38 Norcross Circle North Conway, NH, 03860 Phone: 603-356-5251 Toll-Free: 800-232-5251

Conway Scenic Railroad offers a choice of classic railroad experiences

At Conway Scenic Railroad, the train ride is the experience and you may enjoy traveling on a variety of different railcars ranging from the Gertrude Emma, an 1898-built open-platform observation car to streamlined Vista Domes from the 1950s. Excursions now run in all seasons and offer several distinct trips with up to three classes of travel. Kids will love the Valley Train, a one-hour round trip down the old Boston & Maine Conway Branch. Or consider tickets for a four-hour adventure aboard the Mountaineer which emulates a 1950s transcontinental streamliner. This elegant train makes a trip through the Mt. Washington Valley and over Crawford Notch, NH. If you enjoyed this trip during the summer, consider taking the Winter Mountaineer (runs December until March) and relax as a frozen landscape passes by your window.

New this year, Conway Scenic Railroad is offering guests the opportunity to begin their journey at Crawford Notch! The four-hour Crawford to North Conway return excursion option runs five days a week. 
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On The Bridge - Cafe Lafayette Dinner Train - North Woodstock, NH
Cafe Lafayette Dinner Train

3 Crossing at Riverplace North Woodstock, NH, 03262 Phone: 603-745-3500

Escape from ordinary excursions when you travel aboard this elegant dinner train

Escape from ordinary excursions and reserve a seat on board the Cafe Lafayette Dinner Train, one of the nation’s premier dinner trains. In your 1950s restored vintage rail car, perhaps the one with the dome, you’ll relax in elegant surroundings, including ornate woodworking, stained glass and brass. You’ll be served an equally elegant five-course meal, from a seasonally inspired menu, and enjoy special cocktail selections from a full bar. The train travels 20 miles through the lovely Pemigewasset River Valley. You’ll rumble through woods, over three trestle bridges, the Jack-O-Lantern Golf Course and a Christmas tree farm before returning to the train station in North Woodstock. The dinner train runs May through October and is available for private dining and special events.
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Riverwise Train - Granite State Scenic Railway - Lincoln, NH
Granite State Railway

64 Railroad Street Lincoln, NH, 03251 Phone: 603-745-2135

Explore picturesque White Mountain region from your seat aboard a scenic railway train

Here’s a great way to explore New Hampshire’s beautiful White Mountains region: See it by train! And not just any train: the vintage train cars of the Granite State Scenic Railway have been taking visitors on an 80-minute round trip along the banks of the Pemigewasset River for 37 years along tracks that date to the late 1800s. As the train rumbles through the woods, you can see kayakers, swimmers and fishermen enjoying the river in the spring and summer. In the autumn, the region’s well-known foliage season brings spectacular colors, and on Oct. 26, there are special trains to the New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival. Then Santa and Mrs. Claus arrive after Thanksgiving to meet and greet passengers aboard the Santa Express on weekends through mid-December.
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