Interlude Tours: Vintage Rail Experience on the Santa Fe Southern Railway
We have a fabulous tour coming up in May that offers both Southwestern beauty and three vintage rail experiences!
Vintage Trains of the Great Southwest (click here for itinerary)
May 9-18, 2010 (10 days, 9 nights)
- Guaranteed departure (plan in confidence!)
- Escorted vacation (0% fuss, 100% vacation!)
- Tour for active adults (share a great experience!)
- Includes home pickup and return (for clients in Marion and adjacent counties)
Relevant blog posts:
- Blog post about Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
- Blog post about all of our vintage rail tours in 2010
The Santa Fe Southern Railway is one of the three vintage railways on which you’ll be riding on this amazing tour. According to Wikipedia,
Santa Fe Southern Railway (reporting mark SFS) is a short line railroad in New Mexico, United States. It carries both passengers and freight between Lamy and Santa Fe. It is a tourist railroad: the passenger cars are vintage and most (but not all) passengers are tourists on a one-day round trip.
The official website has this to say:
The 120 year-old spur from Lamy to Santa Fe, the vintage railcars, and the California mission-style depot at 410 S. Guadalupe St., combine to make a charming slice of history. Every year, tens of thousands of visitors come to see, photograph and paint the old Santa Fe Depot and ride the train along the original high-desert route that carried early tourist adventurers, settlers, artists and scientists into the city.
For many visitors, the railway is the only thing they know about Santa Fe before they come here: they hum the 40′s swing song “The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe,” and they point excitedly to the familiar Santa Fe herald, the blue cross in the circle.
Since 1992, this rail line continues as the Santa Fe Southern Railway, a piece of living history – still carrying passengers through the high-desert beauty which is our home, and still carrying freight to serve the community. Like the Plaza, the Santa Fe Southern Railway, with its terminus at the old Santa Fe Depot, is an authentic, irreplaceable link to our City’s colorful past.
Now here’s a treat: a video that an amateur videographer shot about the “Santa Fe.” It’s pretty neat!
This is fantastic tour that’s sure to create memories that last a lifetime, so why not give it a try? We welcome reservations from Indianapolis, where we are based, or from any location in the United States or Canada.
Photo by Sunil060902; used with permission.
–Matt
The Interlude Tours Blog Team
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