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Among the many
opportunities to ride your motorcycle on so many beautiful roads
and see the wonderful scenery of West Virginia; you can also ride
the true "Iron Horses" of our past. Within easy riding
distance of the COG Headquarters are several excursion railroads
just waiting to take you on a ride through the mountains and valleys
of West Virginia. The information listed below is a brief description
of what to expect and the days during the rally that excursions
are available. So far it seems best to simply allow anyone interested
in a train ride to make their own plans and reservations. We have
web links to each of these railroad attactions on our
Riding West Virginia rally web page.
New Tygert
Flyer
Four or six
hour trips may be enjoyed aboard Tygert Flyer's Couch or Parlor
Cars. Four hour round trips begin and end in Elkins and include
an "S" curve tunnel that is the passage into a 1500-feet
deep canyon, and later crosses the Cheat River at Shavers Fork High
Bridge. The six hour trip begins in Belington and offers everything
the four hour trip does plus excellent views of the Tygert River
Valley. Both trips culminate at the "High Falls of Cheat"
before returning to Belington.
- Boarding
Stations:
- Six-hour
Trip - Belington, West Virginia
- Four-hour
Trip - Elkins, West Virginia
- Trips Available
- Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Departure
Times:
- Belington
- 10:00 AM
- Elkins
- 11:00 AM
- Rates:
- 4 Hr.
Trip Adults - $25.00; Seniors - $24.00 and Children (4-11)
$19.00
- 6 Hr.
Trip Adults - $30.00; Seniors - $29.00 and Children (4-11)
$24.00
- All children
3 and under free
- Information
- 1-877-686-7245 or 1-304-456-4935
Durbin Rocket
The Durbin Rocket
is one of only three operating Climax geared locomotives left on
earth. The engine was built in 1910 for the Moore-Keppel Lumber
Company operating in nearby Randolph County. Today passengers can
ride in an authentic gondola freight car or a 1920's Caboose along
the Greenbrier River.
- Boarding
Station - Durbin, West Virginia
- Trips Available
- Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- Departure
Times - 11:30 AM or 3:00 PM
- Rates: Adult-
$15.00 Senior- $14.00 Child- $10.00 (4-11) 3 and Under- Free
- Information
- 1-877-686-7245 or 1-304-456-4935
Cheat Mountain Salamander
The Cheat Mountain
Salamander, listed as a "Rail Bus", is actually a replica
of a 1922 Edwards Railway Motor Car and offers two choices in ride
experiences. One takes you 22 miles down stream ending at the High
Falls of Cheat (Saturday only). The other is an upstream and into
the high mountain spruce forest environment. Either way the Salamander
takes you through some of the wildest mountain wilderness you will
experience in West Virginia.
- Boarding
Station - Cheat Bridge near Durbin, West Virginia
- Trips Available
- Thursday, Friday and Saturday
- Departure
Times - 11:00 AM and 2:30 PM Thursday and Friday and 2:30 PM on
Saturdays
- Rates: 3
hour trip Adult - $20.00; Seniors - $19.00; and Children (4-11)
$14.00 6-hour trip Adult - $36.00; Seniors - $35.00 and Children
(4-11) $30.00 all children under 4 free
- Information
- 1-877-686-7245 or 1-304-456-4935
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
The Cass Scenic
Railroad is the same line built in 1901 to haul lumber to the mill
in Cass. The locomotives are the same Shay locomotives used in Cass,
and in the rain forests of British Columbia for more than a half-century.
The passenger cars are old logging flat-cars refurbished and made
into passenger cars.
Invented to
do the impossible, the Shay logging locomotive was designed to climb
the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail
temporary tracks. In addition, they had to haul incredibly heavy
loads, from woods to mill. Power was all-important. Back in 1911,
West Virginia led the nation with more than 3,000 miles of logging
railroad line. All is gone now, except for the 11 miles at Cass,
restored just as it was in the early 1900's, making Cass Scenic
Railroad State Park America's authentic operating museum of lumber
railroading.
The Potomac Eagle
The historic
Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad is one of America's most beautiful
train rides. For three hours enjoy a narrated excursion through
a tranquil and pristine mountain valley. View historic farms and
lush mountain greenery. Around every curve you are rewarded with
the splendor of native wildflowers, evergreens, and mixed hardwoods
in an unspoiled countryside environment.
- Boarding
Station - Wappocomo Station, 1 1/2 miles north of Romney, West
Virginia on WV Route 28
- Trips Available
- Saturday
- Departure
Times - 11:30 AM
- Rates:
- Coach
Class 3 hour trip Adults - $30.00; Students (6-16) $10.00;
Under 6 free with adult
- Coach
Class All Day Trips Adult $50.00; Students $20.00, and Children
under 6 free with adult
- First
Class 3 hour trips all fares $60.00
- First
Class All Day Trips all fares $100.00
- Information
- Information & Reservations (304) 424-0736 Train Station.
Train days only (304) 822-7464
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