< Home Blog Ohio Fall Train Rides

The Big Train Project

Blog

Ohio Fall Train Rides

September 6, 2021

Fall is approaching and what better way to experience the season than to go on a scenic train ride! Whether you want to see some fall foliage or have a spooky Halloween themed ride, there’s something for everyone! Here are our top 5 picks for Fall train rides!

Hocking Valley Scenic Railway

Hocking Valley Scenic Railway train traverses a portion of a 145-year-old route that once linked Southern Ohio with Columbus and Lake Erie. They have a special Fall Foliage train ride which provides a unique way to experience the fall colors throughout the month of October!

Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad

Enjoy a scenic train ride with the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. They offer a large variety of train rides including:

Murder Mystery Train: Can you figure out who did it? On board, role-play as suspects and detectives. Uncover clues left at the crime scene and interrogate each other.

Ohio Railway Museum

Open Sundays from 12-4pm hosted by the Ohio Railway Museum. Ghost Trolley dates are TBD and is a Halloween event designed for children and families to have fun and hear the story of the ghost trolley!

Courtesy of Ohio Railway Museum

Lebanon Mason Monroe Railroad

LM&M is located in Lebanon / Warren County, Ohio. It’s nice to have something so close to us! In the autumn months they offer Fall Flyer Train Rides as well as the Pumpkin Patch Express!

Courtesy of LM&M

Cincinnati Dinner Train

Dinner with a view! The Cincinnati Dinner Train is a 3.2 hour trip that takes passengers throughout Cincinnati and along the downtown riverfront. A four course dinner are the perfect recipe for your next date.

We hope you enjoy our fall picks and we hope to see you for our own Halloween fun at Jack O’Lantern Junction! Walk thru our indoor, kid friendly maze and see friendly ghosts, skeletons and more. Each child will receive a bag of trick-or-treat candy! Plus, see our new Halloween mini scenes and a Halloween themed train display!

Did you know?

Our highest mountain on display is over 16 feet tall.

Our Train Journey uses 1,968 gallons of scenic colored dirt and grasses costing over $26,000

Our mountains are carved out of 58,000 square feet of spray foam!

We have over 2 miles of G track with 1 mile hidden inside mountains.

There are over 100 scratch built bridges and trestles modeled after real-life structures.

Over 130 talented craftsmen volunteered over 200,000 man-hours to create our display.

EnterTRAINment Junction was conceived in 2003, train construction began in June of 2007 and opened for business in August of 2008.

The entire display is built to be historically accurate showing railroads in 3 distinct time periods.

Opening for business in August 2008, we’ve continuously added more to layouts each month.

Over 1,800 gallons of water is used with 3 storage tanks for waterfalls and rivers.

The control panels that operate each track have over 20,000 solder joints with 8,000 lines of programming to operate multiple trains on the same track.

The walkway through our exhibit is 850 feet long.

Our train display is 25,000 sq. ft. – about ½ of a football field.

Each tunnel leads you into a new time period through your journey.

Our scale is ½” = 1 ft. So, a 6 ft person in life is modeled as a 3” person in our display.

We have hidden 10 dinosaurs in our display – can you find them all?

All of our volunteers leave a personal touch on the items they work on – you can even see a photo of some in their buildings!

The seats in our museum are from Dayton train station from 1900.

We’ve had visitors from all 50 states and 37 countries!

We recently added a Bates Motel to our display – have you spotted it yet?

The tilt in our tilt room is 25 degrees.

During construction, we had to dig into the ground to build the Ames Room.

When you take a picture with flash on a camera of the steamboat, you’ll hear thunder after like it was a flash of lightning.

During your journey, we simulate night and day with 15 minutes of daytime followed by 5 minutes of night.

The switchback line has 2 trains. The one going up the hill has no logs and the train going downhill are fully loaded with logs.

The Coney Island amusement park display is a replica of Cincinnati’s Coney Island as it looked in 1965 – complete with working rides.