If you’re in West Yellowstone and you’re looking to fill out the empty parts of an afternoon, take a few minutes and go check out the Oregon Short Line Museum. Not because it will change your life, but because it’s free, quick to visit, and awfully interesting. Continue Reading

Since 1954, the folks at the Last Chance Train Tour in Helena, Montana have been offering a unique insight into the inner and outer machinations of the storied city of Helena, Montana. I’d like to say this was a unique insight offered only to travel writers, but anyone can enjoy this tour, though it often books solid days or weeks in advance, so book it early if you’re interested. Continue Reading

One of the first, earliest and oldest features of Silverwood Theme Park is still among the best. It’s a genuine steam locomotive, and it’s got more claims to fame than the rest of the park combined, if you ask me. Besides all that, though, it’s great fun, and as surely as we rode it, we swear by it, and the fun we had riding it. Continue Reading

Historically, the train never made it all the way out to Virginia City, and it cost the settlers untold monies, whether they wanted to get goods or even just their mail (more than $1 over 100 years ago, if you can believe everything they tell you on your local tour), but that hasn’t stopped the local chamber of commerce from getting motive with their own chugga-chugga-short-line-choo-choo, and as a kid right in their demographic wheelhouse, I must admit it makes for great fun to ride.
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