{"id":5208,"date":"2012-04-17T12:52:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T19:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2012-04-17T12:52:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T19:52:41","slug":"train-festivals-and-national-train-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/train-festivals-and-national-train-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Train Festivals and National Train Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/trainsong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As California considers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/could-bullet-train-help-californians\/\">spending over $100 billion<\/a> to build trains, National Train Day on May 12, 2012 celebrates the &#8216;golden spike&#8217; driven into the final tie that joined 1,776 miles of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railways on May 10, 1869.\u00a0 Prior to that event, getting to California was a major ordeal. One of the most famous\u00a0 TRUE stories exemplifying the challenges involved the Donner Party wagon train that traveled to California with women, men and children. They took an unproven &#8220;shortcut&#8221; and were stranded in winter snows in the Sierra Nevada mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak is celebrating National Train Day in major cities such as\u00a0 Los Angeles on May 12. Here&#8217;s a sampling of events in California celebrating trains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>FILLMORE &#8211; <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/thomas-the-train-pulls-into-california-stations\/\">Thomas the Train<\/a> at Fillmore &amp; Western Railway Co. (Ventura County) April 20, 21, 22 &amp; 27, 28, 29, 2012.\u00a0 Location: 250 Central Avenue, Fillmore, CA. Tickets $18, call (866) 468-7630, ticketweb.com\/thomas.html or fwry.com<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong> &#8211; Nickelodeon character, Dora the Explorer, will wow the crowd at Union Station on Train Day, Saturday, May 12, 2012, 11 a.m. &#8211; 4 p.m. Union Station.\u00a0 <strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>POWAY<\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/poway-train-song-festival.html\">Train Song Festiva<\/a>l, April 28, 2012, Noon &#8211; 8 p.m. Free admission. poway.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>DUNSMUIR<\/strong>: Train Day Railroad Display May 12, 2012, 10 a.m. &#8211; 4 p.m. Admission: Free.\u00a0 dunsmuir.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As California considers spending over $100 billion to build trains, National Train Day on May 12, 2012 celebrates the &#8216;golden spike&#8217; driven into the final tie that joined 1,776 miles of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railways on May 10, 1869.\u00a0 Prior to that event, getting to California was a major ordeal. One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}