Booo choo choo! Halloween train rides are hitting the rails with track-and-treat fun for everyone! Onboard experiences range from daylight parties in open-air coaches to night sky adventures in shadowy dome cars. Frights and delights are age-appropriate, so nobody goes home scared or disappointed. Onboard surprises and track-side haunts add to the fun, and costumes are always encouraged.
Halloween traditions, pumpkin trains and haunted train rides abound. And onboard Halloween celebrations feature live performances by magicians, musicians, and clowns plus activities like games, fake tattoos, and best costume prizes and good treats to eat!
Ready to go where the ghosties go? Some of North America’s best Halloween train rides lie dead ahead. Check out our hit list… if you dare.
New England
Gremlins and ghosts are out and about at railways across New England. The spooky times roll aboard the Connecticut Trolley Museum‘s Rails to the Darkside and on the Cape Cod Central Railroad‘s Ghosts Along the Coast train in Massachusetts. A kid-friendly Spook-tacular Train brings trick-or-treat fun to Maine’s Boothbay Railway Village. Jack-o-lantern carvers and holiday pie bakers are on the right track aboard New Hampshire’s Conway Scenic Railroad and Maine’s Seashore Trolley Museum where Pumpkin Patch Trains promise pumpkins for all!
Mid Atlantic
For families across the Mid Atlantic USA, pumpkin patch trains are bound for fields at New Jersey’s Black River Railway, New York’s Catskill Mountain Railroad, and Pennsylvania’s Wanamaker Kempton and Southern Railroad . And Pennsylvania’s New Hope & Ivyland Railroad Trick or Treat Train is a family favorite!. Once darkness falls, danger lurks when New York’s Arcade & Attica Railroad‘s Haunted Halloween Train drops you off at a creepy haunted house, where you’re on your own until the train returns.
Southern USA
Southern USA railroads are onboard with a range of Halloween family fun. The Tweetsie Railroad’s Ghost Train brings family-friendly thrills and chills to North Carolina’s famous Wild West park. There’s punkin’ pickin’ fun awaiting families at pumpkin train ride events at Alabama’s Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum, the South Carolina Railroad Museum and the Kentucky Railway Museum. Dare tone scared? You can flee Zombies on the Survivor Train or face your fears aboard the “Meet the Monsters” ride on Saturday nights in October at the Georgia Coastal Railway.
Midwest USA
The Midwest USA is pumpkin country and that means regional Halloween train rides offer plenty of opportunities to go for the gourd! Michigan’s Little River Railroad and Minnesota’s North Shore Scenic Railroad are among the railways where pumpkin patch express trains will be heading for the fields. For scarier fare, the Ghost Story Train at Illinois’s Fox River Trolley and the Ghost Train of Metamora at Indiana’s Whitewater Valley Railroad are good bets!
Southwest USA
Around the Southwest USA, Halloween train rides run the gamut from frightful to delightful At the Grapevine Vintage Railroad in Texas, the Witches Brew Train is an adults-only Halloween party on wheels! The Oklahoma Railway Museum welcomes young and old aboard the Sooner State’s only Halloween Train Ride event featuring bonus activities and a trick-or-treat goodie bag. In Arizona, the Verde Canyon Railroad hosts Fright Nights on The Haunted Phantom Train!
Western USA
Railways across the Western USA conjure up an on-track mix of Halloween terrors and treats! In California, the Ghost Town Train brings terror to the tracks to help transform Knott’s Berry Farm into a Scary Farm! Across the state line, Nevada Northern Railway‘s Ghost Train of Old Ely comes alive with legions of demons, ghosts, and goblins. And pumpkin patches welcome train-loads of pumpkin pickers at Utah’s Heber Valley Railroadand California’s Skunk Train!
Canada
Creepy crawlers across Canada are ready to give you a chill. In British Columbia, the Haunted Forest Scream Train at Bear Creek Park makes kid-friendly runs to the pumpkin patch. Alberta’s Aspen Crossing Train of Terror delivers frightful adults-only nights of sanity-testing nightmares. In Ontario, Port Stanley Terminal Rail and York Durham Heritage Railway go for the gourd with annual Pumpkin Patch Trains.
Kid-friendly trick-or-treat trains and pumpkin patch runs are ready to roll… and eerie expresses are right on track. Halloween train rides are scheduled at railways in dozens of states and provinces across North America. To find a rail attraction near you, go to Train Traveling’s Train Rides in the USA and Canada … or check out the most complete online guide to Halloween train rides, SpooktacularTrains.com! And don’t be scaaaaared… just book your Halloween Train Ride now… before it’s tooooo late!
