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Can you think of anything more old-fashioned than Fall harvests with fields of pumpkins & pumpkin patches? Add that to a vintage train ride and you have the makings of a Halloween experience made for memories.

Each year California’s train attractions (not your typical Amtrak passenger service,) produce Halloween holiday-themed events designed to entertain all ages. While some are geared for toddlers, youth and parents, others appeal to teens and adults. It seems California’s vintage railroad museums and train rides have all ages covered for one of the state’s biggest annual celebrations!

Take a Halloween Train

Events and dates subject to change

FELTON (SANTA CRUZ): Roaring Camp Railroad Steam Harvest Festival October 5-6, 2019 plus Thomas & Percy’s Halloween Party October 12-27

FORT BRAGG – WILLITS: Skunk Train Pumpkin Express October 6-27,

FILLMORE (VENTURA COUNTY): Fillmore & Western Railway Pumpkliner October 5-27 plus Zombie Hunter (the Zombie Apocalypse paintball) October 5-27 and Murder Mystery Dinner Train October 26

CAMPO (SAN DIEGO COUNTY): Pacific Southwest Railway Pumpkin Express Great Pumpkin Patch October 12-27

ORANGE: Irvine Park Railroad Pumpkin Patch September 14-October 31

PERRIS: Orange Empire Railway Pumpkin Patch Express October 12-27 plus Terror in Train Town October 4-26

PORTOLA (PLUMAS COUNTY): Western Pacific Railroad Museum Pumpkin Patch Express Trains October 19-27

SACRAMENTO: California State Railroad Museum Spookomotive Train Rides October 5-27

SAN JOSE: Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad Fall Harvest Festival October 19

SUISUN CITY: Western Railway Museum Pumpkin Patch Festival October 12-27

WEST SACRAMENTO: Sacramento River Train Pumpkin Train October 5-27

More train rides…

FISH CAMP: Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad  Logger Steam Train in Sierra National Forest  – no mention of Halloween experiences but vintage Fall fun!