PUMPKINLINERS READY TO ROLL FILLMORE RAILWAY OFFERS ANNUAL TRAIN RIDES.Byline: Sharon Cotal Staff Writer FILLMORE - Fillmore & Western Railway has decorated its locomotives with ghoulish ghoul n. 1. One who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome. 2. A grave robber. 3. An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses. care for its most popular event of the year, the Pumpkinliners, which run every weekend this month. Ghosts, witches, spiders and severed heads
Severed Heads is an Australian electronic music group based and founded in Sydney in 1979 (see 1979 in music) as Mr. and Mrs. No Smoking Sign. adorn the dining cars to celebrate the ghostly goings-on of Halloween spooks as the trains head to a private pumpkin patch. Visitors can choose from five departure times each Saturday and Sunday for a ride to pick out the perfect pumpkin. The Gull Wings Children's Museum Children's museums are institutions that provide exhibits and programs that stimulate informal learning experiences for children. In contrast with traditional museums that typically have a hands-off policy regarding exhibits, children's museums feature interactive exhibits that are of Oxnard will be on location with its mobile museum-on-the-go, helping kids and their parents decorate their newly acquired gourds. In addition to the selection and decorating process, visitors can participate in the Jolly Jumps, visit with the ``Queen Witch,'' who sits on her throne of hay and spider webs, and weave their way through a hay maze. Also available at the pumpkin patch will be food and arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. booths. The Pumpkinliners will depart at 10 and 11 a.m., 12:10, 1:10 and 2:20 p.m. every weekend in October beginning today. Train fares are $15 for adults and seniors, $8 for children ages 4-12 and $6 for infants to age 3. Pumpkin prices at the pumpkin patch are $1 and up. An evening ride to the pumpkin patch aboard the ``Search for the Headless Horseman Headless Horseman spectral figure haunts Ichabod Crane. [Am. Lit.: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow] See : Headlessness Train'' will provide dinner and entertainment thrills for all aboard. This new attraction dinner train will creep into the groves searching for the Headless Horseman and other haunting characters during the evenings of Oct. 10 and 24. Another new addition to the Halloween lineup of spooky trains is ``Ghost Train Ghost train may refer to:
Celebrating its 10th year of hosting GhostWalk, the Santa Paula Theater Center will have actors portraying demised former citizens, relating the tales of their death to the touring audience. Before or after their ghostly tours, riders will be guided to the California Oil Museum to explore its newest exhibit, ``Quilts.'' During the one-hour train ride back to Fillmore, staffers and passengers will share ghost stories. Fillmore & Western Railway is west of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, in the city of Fillmore. The vintage train travels through pristine orange, lemon and avocado groves and orchards among the historic communities of Piru, Fillmore and Santa Paula. For information, or to make reservations, call (800) 773-8724 or visit www.fwry.com. |
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