Get your Halloween Jack-o-Lantern and spend a great day in the country. Each Saturday and Sunday from October 13 to October 28, the Western Railway Museum will run special "Pumpkin Patch Trains" from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM.

Gather the family and begin at the Western Railway Museum. The first electric express train leaves at 10:00 AM with departures every half-hour throughout the day. The trip back in time takes visitors on a scenic five-mile ride to Gum Grove Station, a wooded glen far from the trappings of modern life.

All proceeds benefit the Western Railway Museum (a nonprofit educational institution) and the Fairfield area Rotary clubs, which provide thousands of dollars to community and youth activities each year.

Read the full brief at: http://www.rypn.org/briefs/WRM-Pumpkin-Festival/

The two cars used for transportation to the Pumpkin Patch will be the Key System Bay Bridge train units #182 and #187. They ran across the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge from 1939 until 1958. If you would like to ride one, these are the only two still in operating condition anywhere.

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