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Oklahoma Train Rides And Excursion Trains

If you are looking to take a rail excursion in the Sooner State it is woefully absent of tourist railroads. Right now, there are just two Oklahoma train rides to choose from; those operated by shortline Farmrail and the Oklahoma Railway Museum. Farmrail is an operating freight line that hosts excursions during just a limited window of the year between July and November. Known as their Quartz Mountain Flyer it is a very nice operation using restored, streamlined coaches, especially for being relatively unknown. The Oklahoma Railway Museum's excursions are much shorter than Farmrail's operation and just like the shortline's train rides be sure and plant your trip as they operate during certain times of the year. Also, if you might like to know about all of the railroad museums open to the public in Oklahoma please click here.

Oklahoma has, historically, always been important to railroads. However, back when classic lines like the Missouri Pacific, Santa Fe, Rock Island and others served the state it served an even more important purpose by providing a lot of online agriculture and other originating freight traffic. As for the Oklahoma train rides, Farmrail does not offer much information about what they provide, other than an excursion on their property using climate-controlled cars (they own a lot of trackage so the length of the ride could be quite long). In any event, please contact them to find out exactly what they offer. The Oklahoma Railway Museum operates just a short train ride on their property. The facility itself, however, is excellent and well worth the visit just to see the exhibits. In any event, to learn more about the two excursions please read on below.

Oklahoma Train Rides And Excursion Trains

Farmrail

Farmrail, based in Clinton, Oklahoma is an employee-owned freight railroad that operates nearly 200 miles of trackage in the state. Along with freight operations Farmrail also operates an excursion train which takes passengers up to the Quartz Mountain Resort. For more information about riding the train please call 508-323-1234.

Oklahoma Railway Museum

The Oklahoma Railway Museum based in Oklahoma City looks to preserve the state's railroad history. Along with a wide collection of preserved equipment on hand the museum also operates excursion trains on a short stretch of trackage once owned by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (the Katy). For more information about riding the train please visit their website by clicking here.

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To learn more about the history of Oklahoma's railroads please click here. Also, for more information about Oklahoma train rides you might want to consider the book Tourist Trains Guidebook, which is put together by the editors of Kalmbach Publishing's Trains magazine. The guide below is the latest, released in just April, 2011 that now includes more than 470 museums and tourist trains (it also lists all of Alabama's rail museums). In any event, if you're interested in perhaps purchasing this book please visit the link below which will take you to ordering information through Amazon.com, the trusted online shopping network.

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