Michigan Fall Foliage Trips Set

The Steam Railroading Institute in Michigan has announced its lineup of fall foliage excursions. Trains will operate on Oct. 4 from Cadillac to Boyne Falls, on Oct. 11 from Petoskey to Fife Lake and on Oct. 18 from Mt. Pleasant to Cadillac.

All trips will depart at 10 a.m. and feature a one-hour side trip for an additional $20 that will run during the layover at the destination city.

The trip from Cadillac to Boyne Falls will take approximately two hours. Tickets are $79 per person plus a $5 processing fee.

During the four-hour layover a shuttle will operate between the boarding site and the Harvest Festival in downtown Boyne City. Another shuttle will take passengers to Boyne Mountain’s Skitoberfest. There is a $2 charge to ride the shuttle to the Harvest Festival.

The one-hour side trip from Boyne Falls will depart at 2 p.m.

For further information or to purchase tickets online, go to http://michigansteamtrain.com/ or call 989-399-7589.

Fall Foliage Trips Set in Western New York

The Livonia, Avon & Lakeville Railroad in conjunction  with the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum will operate a series of fall foliage trips in western New York on what is usually freight-only trackage on former Erie Railroad tracks.

The trips will run on Oct. 18 and depart from Lakeville, N.Y., at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. The station is the parking of the Conesus Lake Sportsmen’s club.

The trains will be pulled by Alco diesel locomotives owned by the railroad and will operate between Lakeville and Industry.

The rolling stock will be refurbished Budd stainless steel coaches built for New York Central’s Empire State Express in 1941.

Currently, volunteers are working to prepare the coaches, which are stored on a siding alongside the museum property and the LA&L main line, for use in October.

Tickets for the Fall Foliage can be purchased at Wegmans supermarket service counters.

“We’re really looking forward to operating these trips, and we are very grateful to the Livonia, Avon & Lakeville for their cooperation,” said museum President Mike Dow. “Our volunteers have been working round the clock, and we can’t wait to welcome the public aboard once again.”

For more information, visit www.rgvrrm.org/fallfoliage