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It’s
the Great Pumpkin Patch Express, Charlie Brown!
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New PEANUTS™
Train at Kentucky Railway Museum, Oct. 3-4, 2015
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New
Haven, KY – August 2015 / Newsmaker Alert / PEANUTS™,
pumpkins and one very “sincere” pumpkin patch. “Trick or treat comes only
once a year,” as Sally says. Spend it in Bardstown at the Kentucky Railway
Museum for its Great Pumpkin Patch Express. Two excursions, themed after
Charles M. Schulz’s classic story, It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,
will depart from Kentucky Railway Museum’s New Haven depot on Saturday
and Sunday, Oct. 3 and 4, 2015. Visit www.KyRail.org
for details.
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 Trains
depart at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday for an excursion through
the Kentucky countryside to the Pumpkin Patch where children can choose
a pumpkin to take home. Kids are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes
for this event, which also includes photos with Charlie Brown and Snoopy,
a coloring station, mini train rides, mini golf, bounce house, games, temporary
tattoos and more. Back at the train depot, families can browse and buy
PEANUTS™ merchandise. Tickets: $20/ages 2 and up. Advance purchase strongly
recommended. 800-272-0152, www.KyRail.org
The
Great Pumpkin Patch Express headlines a full schedule of Kentucky Railway
Museum excursions. Don’t miss the family-friendly Rolling Fork Iron Horse
Festival on Saturday, Sept. 12, with an excursion and lots of arts of crafts
activities. New to the festival for 2015 is a Wine Tasting hosted by the
museum.
On
Saturday Oct. 17, the museum hosts the 4th Annual Antique Car Show, with
beautiful classic cars to see before or after a train excursion. Themed
train excursions include Civil War Train Robbery, Great Train Robbery,
Murder Mystery Theater and four-course dinner train. See all the excursions
at www.KyRail.org.
Bardstown
has lots of fall fun planned for October. Make a weekend of it and find
your perfect overnight among Bardstown’s well-known chain hotels and 17
bed and breakfasts – including ones near Bardstown’s busy Court Square
and ones that accommodate families traveling with children at www.VisitBardstown.com.
Media
Contacts:
Lynn
Kustes, Marketing Director, 800-272-0152 or 502-549-5470
Kentucky
Railway Museum, www.KyRail.org
Dawn
Przystal, Vice President, 800-638-4877 x 114
Bardstown-Nelson
County Tourist & Convention Commission
Hi-
and Low-Res photos available.
About
Kentucky Railway Museum
Kentucky
Railway Museum is a volunteer-based, non-profit organization located
in New Haven, Ky., a short drive from historic Bardstown in Nelson County.
It is the only train-related attraction in the state with both a model
layout and train excursions. Visitors recapture the romance of a bygone
era through exhibits and aboard a restored passenger train that links the
past to the present and small-town America to the world on a 22-mile excursion
through the Rolling Fork River Valley. The 5,000-square-foot museum is
a replica of the original brick L&N New Haven depot and holds more
than 70 pieces of rail equipment, plus dining car exhibit, ticket office
and a display of steam locomotive whistles. Tracks display restored rolling
stock. The museum hosts rail celebrities, including Thomas The Tank Engine™,
and offers themed excursions: train robberies, mystery theatre, meals a
la the Golden Era of Railroad Dining. The museum accommodates groups, reunions,
field trips and birthday and anniversary celebrations.
About
Bardstown, KY
Located
in the heart of Kentucky Bourbon Country and situated at the trailhead
of the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail®, Bardstown
is more familiarly known as the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” It is home
to six distilleries, including Barton 1792 and Willett Distillery, and
these four Kentucky Bourbon Trail® distilleries: Heaven Hill, Maker’s
Mark, Jim Beam and Four Roses’ second campus. Major attractions include
the outdoor musical, “The Stephen Foster Story,” My Old Kentucky Home State
Park, the highly regarded Civil War Museum of the Western Theatre, My Old
Kentucky Dinner Train, The Kentucky Railway Museum and Whisky Magazine’s
Visitor Attraction of the Year – the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History.
Additionally, Bardstown has four 18-hole golf courses, three wineries,
two haunted tours and numerous religious attractions. Fodor picked Bardstown
as one of “America’s Best Small Towns” and AARP named it one of its “10
best small towns.” It led TheCultureTrip.com’s list of the “10 Most Beautiful
Towns in Kentucky” and was named the “Most Beautiful Small Town in America”
in the Rand McNally/USA Today 2012 “Best of the Road” contest. Bardstown
landed in the top 20 of “America’s Favorite Towns” by Travel + Leisure
– which also recognized it as having one of “America’s Most Beautiful Town
Squares.” In 2013, Bardstown was designated a certified Kentucky Cultural
District, one of only six Kentucky cities to achieve this honor. www.facebook.com/BardstownKY |
