For the next three weekends, the Toledo Lake Erie & Western Railway is offering special Halloween Train Adventures.

Halloween Trains are available for three weekends, Oct. 16-18, 23-25 and Oct. 30, 31 and Nov. 1.

The popular Halloween excursions are scheduled for Friday and Saturday evenings at 7 and 8:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 1, 2:30 and 4 p.m.

It is strongly recommend that tickets be purchased in advance for Halloween rides by calling 1-866-63-TRAIN or visiting www.tlew.org.

Trains depart from the Waterville Train Station, located at 49 North Sixth St., Waterville.

The Toledo, Lake Erie & Western Railway and Museum, Inc., was once part of the Cloverleaf Division of the Nickel Plate Road. With today's travel patterns, many children and even their parents, have never ridden a real passenger train. The Bluebird Passenger Train offers this opportunity.

During our regular season, the 60-plus minute round trip ride takes passengers back to a more casual time when passenger trains where a primary form of transportation.

Passengers can sit back and enjoy the ride past an original 185-year-old log cabin, then past a 100-year-old horse barn as they journey over the last remaining 10 miles of track from one of America's most prestigious railroads, The Nickel-Plate Railroad.

The Cloverleaf division of the Nickel-Plate provided rail service from Toledo to St. Louis, Mo.,  between the mid 1800s and the early 1900s.

After the excursion, passengers are invited to visit the engineer for a tour of the locomotive and to converse with the train crew for a taste of what it was like to work on a railroad 100 years ago.

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