All aboard PEANUTS The Great Pumpkin Patch on the historic Broad Top Railroad in Rockhill Furnace Pennsylvania. Join Charlie Brown and Snoopy on the train ride behind a century-old steam engine as you pass through rolling hills, farms, and forests. Get ready for games like Pumpkin Bowling at the Sincere Pumpkin Patch.

Get on board for a fun, not scary fall activity complete with the chance to meet some bonafide celebrities. Come in costume!

Ride the rails to the Sincere Pumpkin Patch to pick your own perfect pumpkin. Play family-friendly games, meet Snoopy and Charlie Brown and more.

Join Charlie Brown and Snoopy on the train ride behind a century-old steam engine while enjoying the fall foliage in a new way as you pass through rolling hills, farms, and forests. The three-hour experience through the scenic Augwick Valley includes 90 minutes at the Sincere Pumpkin Patch Oct. 12,13,19,20,26 and 27. Trains depart at 10 am 11:30 am, 1 pm and 230PM. There will be at least one wheelchair-accessible car on each train

You can reserve seats in enclosed coaches, open-air cars or in the historic caboose. On the way, You’ll enjoy aa reading of Charles M. Schulz’s “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.”  Once you get to the pumpkin patch, besides choosing your pumpkin you can ride in a hay wagon, play mini-golf or Corn Hole, go pumpkin bowling, join a football kicking contest or Bouncy-Ball races, check out Lucy’s Psychiatric Health Booth and take selfies with Snoopy and Charlie Brown. Take part in the costume contest! There will be winners on every train departure.

You won’t get hungry as a variety of food trucks will be on hand. The price is $24 for kids 2-12, including a pumpkin and $30 for adults in the open-air or enclosed coach. Riding in the caboose is $5 more.

There are other places for exciting train rides this fall. In Manitou, CO, close to Colorado Springs, you can ride THE BROADMOOR, MANITOU, and PIKES PEAK COG RAILWAY  to the summit of Pikes Peak– 14,115 feet).

This is one  of Colorado’s famous “fourteeners” that you don’t have to climb. Instead ride this unique cog train, America’s highest railway. The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway. Katherine Lee Bates was so inspired by the view in 1895 that she penned the poem that would become the patriotic song  “American the Beautiful”.

This iconic railway is one of only two cog railways in the U.S. and runs all year long (it is closed on certain holidays, like Christmas). Originally built in 1891 and owned and operated by The Broadmoor, this historic railway is the highest cog railway in the world, one of Colorado’s top attractions,  Adult tickets are as low as $59 and $49 for kids 12 and under.

On the newly opened Pikes Peak Cog Railway

Steps from the Grand Canyon on Route 66 in Williams AZ, the Grand Canyon Railway has been taking people to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon since 1901 before the land was a national park. Built by the legendary Atkinson, Topeka, and Santa Fe (ATSF), the Grand Canyon Railway runs to within steps of the Grand Canyon South Rim and El Tovar. The train, comprised of railcars from the 1930s,  1940s and 1950s, including luxury dome cars and an open platform observation car, as well as vintage coaches with opening windows, departs at 9:30 a.m. and returns at 5:45 p.m. with a 2.5-hour layover at South Rim of Grand Canyon.

Musicians and cowboy characters will entertain you as the terrain changes from high desert to prairie to pine. The train takes an estimated 70,000 cars off the road. It runs daily nearly every day of the year except on certain holidays such as Christmas. Tickets are $65 for adults 17 and up and $37 for kids 16 and under, though prices can change. (Book now for the Polar Express.)

On select days during the year, the Railway pulls the daily train once a month with a massive 100-year-old steam engine built in 1923, which runs on waste vegetable oil. There is no extra charge. It is believed that the Grand Canyon Railway is the last standard gauge passenger railroad in the US, where steam engines are still scheduled to pull revenue trains. Visit www.thetrain.com or call 1-800-THE-TRAIN (1-800-843-8724) for updated and current information on the hotel and the train.

Photo credits for PEANUTS the Great Pumpkin Patch Railroad: Matthew Malkiewicz.