Tickets for the June 17 and 18 excursions in Chicago behind Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 are almost sold out.
The restored Berkshire steam engine will pull trips from Joliet, Illinois, to Chicago’s LaSalle Street Station over tracks owned by Metra and once used by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific.
The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, which owns the locomotive, said that half of the trips are sold out.
These include both Saturday trips. Earlier this week there were about 100 tickets left for the Sunday trips.