MNG Autumn Moonlight Limited & Pumpkin Trains

[Bill Piche]

Maine Narrow Gauge will be running Friday evening trains for the final 3 weekends in October.

Come on by and see Monson 3 in action Friday evenings (20th and 27th) and the final two weekends of the month (21/22 & 28/29).

[Stephen Piwowarski]

Hi Bill,

Is this the first time. MNG is running autumn evening trains? As I'm sure you've seen, we ran one 2 Saturday weekends ago and were quite pleased with the turnout. I'm hoping to get down to ride one of them. Either way, best of luck welcoming No. 3 back in Portland

Steve

[Mike Fox]

Sounds like a great time.

[John Scott]

From Melbourne, in Spring, I have been enjoying the Fall colours in the background of various photographs, including those from the FWW. Now I am intrigued to note that "Autumn" is within the accepted terminology, after all!

[Bill Piche]

Hi Bill,

Is this the first time. MNG is running autumn evening trains? As I'm sure you've seen, we ran one 2 Saturday weekends ago and were quite pleased with the turnout. I'm hoping to get down to ride one of them. Either way, best of luck welcoming No. 3 back in Portland

Steve

I did see that. I actually delayed putting this up on the forum until after the apple trains were done so that there wasn't any sort of conflicting ads on the forum.

MNG used to run a night train the last weekend before Halloween but that was usually with diesel power and didn't have lights in the cars. It hasn't been done for years, though. I believe what made it a Halloween train was that they put the flat car on the train with a blow up pumpkin. Not sure what else they did for that.

[Bill Piche]

And yea as soon as I decide to post about the evening trains, they get canceled. *sigh*

3 will still be in service on the Sat\Sun of the last 2 weekends of the month. Friday days may end up being steam in place of the evening trains.

[Joe Fox]

Thats a bummer. :/ I was looking forward to going for an evening ride down there.

[Bob Holmes]

May I politely ask the reason for the cancellation.  It seemed like a wonderful event to me, especially with the success of our Apple Train!

[Bill Piche]

The most that I can say is that it was an internal decision. I cannot say what the decision was based on, nor can I speculate. I was merely the messenger since I'm one of the few members of MNG that post here with any regularity.

[Stephen Piwowarski]

Too bad Bill. It sounds like it would've been fun, but sometimes that is not enough. Thanks also for holding up on posting here- I could imagine that it could've led to some confusion. Maybe next year you'll get to try again
Take care,
Steve

[Bill Piche]

Excellent turnout for the first weekend of the Pumpkin Trains. We had over 1150 riders between Saturday (550+) and Sunday (600+).

If you're in the area come by and go for a ride or just to see 3 in action. I'll be engineering on Sunday if you want to say hello.

[John McNamara]

Great news, Bill!

[Bill Reidy]

That's great to hear, Bill -- Thanks!