Amazing how one can make up a website promoting an event without simple instructions on how to get there via public transportation.

Could it be that there is no public transportation to their location?

However you get there, it sounds like a real bargain for a day out.  Thanks for the information.

Well, there is this and it stops at the Buffalo airport.

 

http://www.coachusa.com/CoachU...les/111/ob_sched.pdf

 

Pete

I apologize for seeming critical, but I really care about encouraging steam preservation. I was involved many years ago with such an operation. When I take the kids 400 miles to see a steam engine I am not interested in a two dollar hot dog. I want to know a list of reasonable motels in the area, and good inexpensive restaurants. Is there a bus station? The fifteen bucks is very cheap, but it's not a deal breaker. Maybe for a special for folks in the area. I want a window seat, which is not always the case, a chance to pose a kid in the engineer's seat (yes...I'd pay five bucks a kid for that)...not necessarily a cab ride, and a list of other things to do in the immediate area. I like the idea of a banjo or guitar player singing songs on the train.  I'm trying to gently suggest that there is a marketing issue here. Just trying to make constructive criticism (if there is such a thing). Peace.

That it has also.

 

 

I would much rather listen to the steam locomotive.

Thanks for the heads up on this.  I'm going to incorporate this into our trip to Buffalo to ride behind the 765.   Do this on Saturday, do the 765 on Sunday. 

 

Regards,

GNNPNUT

Tommy, the ride is only a little over 6 miles long one way. For anyone in the area it is a very pleasant ride in country to Arcade, NY. Mapquest will give you directions. Plan to visit if you are in the area but don't plan a cross country trip just to ride the train. They also have an operating 44 tonner which has been filling in while the 2-8-0 has been getting refurbished.

I will get down there a few times a year just for the ride in the country. Thanks to heads up from the OP I will get down and take some pics and maybe ride up to Curriers for a few hots.

Gnnpnut, and anyone else taking the 765 out of Buffalo, consider traveling over to Letchworth State Park and taking a few pics of the bridge the 765 will be traveling over.

Fine place to spend some time.

 

Pete

tommy you seem to want a travel agent, not a bit of news on a tourist train.    

 

 

Here is some hotel information that will put you 5-10 minutes from Bison Yard which the 765 excursion will depart from.  They are also just outside of Buffalo which will put you a little closer to the Arcade & Attica excursion.

 

https://www.google.com/webhp?s...;rflfq=1&tbm=lcl

 

The two hotels on Dingens in Cheektowaga are 5 minutes away and the three on Slade Ave. in West Seneca are 10 minutes away.

 

If you like barbeque when you are done with the Arcade & Attica on Saturday there is a really cool roadside stand about 5 minutes away on Route 16 called Krolick's which serves the best ribs and chicken combo around.  Here is a link.

 

http://www.krolicks.com/stand.php

 

 

 

 

 

Dang it, now I'm hungry!

 

Richie

 

 

I know this has nothing to do with the steam excursion but I sure love my barbecue and being Memorial Day I plan to have some.

Gee, how about considering buying some tickets - so this sort of thing can continue in the future?

 

Taking pictures doesn't do a thing to help make sure it continues..........

Opps, did I read above one of the curses of these tourist roads:  "The steamer is down,

sorry you came all this distance....you get a diesel today".  I would definitely look up

Krolick's. to avoid the hot dogs.  (this is hamburger country).  I guess you need to

call ahead to make sure steam is running...

There is a bus directly from New York City to Attica and return every saturday. Fare for adults round trip is $60. Children $25. It is not listed on Greyhound. It is a private bus service for people visiting Attica Prison. Do a Google search. It stops in Manhatten, Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx at around midnight and arrives at Attica at 7:20. Leaves Attica to go back to NYC at 3:15 and arrives back in NYC at 11 P.M.

I'm sure you will meet some real nice people on that bus ride.

Great ride! Gutsy little consolidation with great stack talk. The steamer runs around the train for the return trip, and the last car is an open car. That means you can stand there with the smoke box right in your face as she works up the grade out of the station!

Here's an admittedly crappy video I shot of the train leaving the turnaround spot...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQObPZrqsng