Museum posts railroad-focused trips

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania has announced three Rambles for 2025, its 50th anniversary year.

A Woodstown and Winterthur Ramble will be held on Saturday, May 10. Participants will take a 32-mile roundtrip train ride on the Woodstown Central Railroad through the southern New Jersey countryside, over historic rail lines chartered as far back as 1856. After lunch at the Creekside Inn, the group will visit the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. Located in northern Delaware, Winterthur is a museum of American decorative arts, displayed in a 175-room house and 60 acres of gardens. Dinner at the Mendenhall Inn will also be a part of the outing. The deadline for registration is Monday, March 17.

A Boonton and Black River Ramble will occur on Saturday, June 14. The event will include a tour of the railroad collection of the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey, in Boonton, including restoration projects in progress, and a catered lunch on-site. Participants will also take an hour-long train ride on the Black River & Western Railroad, founded in the early 1960s by a group of friends with an interest in steam railroading. The trip includes dinner at the Clinton Station Diner in a restored 1927 train car. The deadline for registration is Monday, April 14.

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania will offer a Quebec and the Northern Tier Ramble from Tuesday, Sept. 9, through Monday, Sept. 15. The trip will include a train ride on the Saratoga, Corinth & Hudson Railway in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; a visit to Exporail, a Canadian railway museum; a guided tour of Montreal; a guided tour of historic Quebec City; a scenic roundtrip train ride on the Train de Charlevoix from Quebec City to Baies-Saint-Paul along the Saint Lawrence River; a train ride on the Champlain Valley Dinner Train in Burlington, Vt.; and a visit to the University of Vermont's Morgan horse farm in Middlebury, Vt. Also included are six nights of hotel accommodations as well as six breakfasts, three lunches, and four dinners. The deadline for registration is Thursday, May 1.

For each trip, there is a fee, with a discount for members of the Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. For more information, visit http://www.rrmuseumpa.org or call 717-687-8628. To check availability after the registration deadline for any trip, call the aforementioned number. To become a member of the Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, visit the aforementioned website and look under "Support Us."

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