It’s the Great Pumpkin Patch Express, Charlie Brown!

BARDSTOWN, Ky. - Sept. 1, 2015 - PRLog -- PEANUTS™, pumpkins and one very “sincere” pumpkin patch. “Trick or treat comes only once a year,” as Sally says. Spend it in Bardstown at the Kentucky Railway Museum for its Great Pumpkin Patch Express. Two excursions, themed after Charles M. Schulz’s classic story, It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, will depart from Kentucky Railway Museum’s New Haven depot on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 3 and 4, 2015. Visit www.KyRail.org for details.

Trains depart at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday for an excursion through the Kentucky countryside to the Pumpkin Patch where children can choose a pumpkin to take home. Kids are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes for this event, which also includes photos with Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a coloring station, mini train rides, mini golf, bounce house, games, temporary tattoos and more. Back at the train depot, families can browse and buy PEANUTS™ merchandise. Tickets: $20/ages 2 and up. Advance purchase strongly recommended. 800-272-0152, www.KyRail.org

The Great Pumpkin Patch Express headlines a full schedule of Kentucky Railway Museum excursions. Don’t miss the family-friendly Rolling Fork Iron Horse Festival on Saturday, Sept. 12, with an excursion and lots of arts of crafts activities. New to the festival for 2015 is a Wine Tasting hosted by the museum.

On Saturday, Oct. 17, the museum hosts the 4th Annual Antique Car Show, with beautiful classic cars to see before or after a train excursion. Themed train excursions include Civil War Train Robbery, Great Train Robbery, Murder Mystery Theater and four-course dinner train. See all the excursions at www.KyRail.org.

Bardstown has lots of fall fun planned for October. Make a weekend of it and find your perfect overnight among Bardstown’s well-known chain hotels and 17 bed and breakfasts – including ones near Bardstown’s busy Court Square and ones that accommodate families traveling with children at www.VisitBardstown.com.

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Lynn Kustes (mailto:lkustes2546@gmail.com), Marketing Director, 800-272-0152 or 502-549-5470
Kentucky Railway Museum, www.KyRail.org

Dawn Przystal (mailto:dawn@bardstowntourism.com), Vice President-Bardstown-Nelson County TCC, 800-638-4877 x 114

Bardstown-Nelson County Tourist & Convention Commission (http://www.visitbardstown.com/)

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ABOUT KENTUCKY RAILWAY MUSEUM (http://www.kyrail.org/) | Kentucky Railway Museumis a volunteer-based, non-profit organization located in New Haven, Ky., a short drive from historic Bardstown in Nelson County. It is the only train-related attraction in the state with both a model layout and train excursions. Visitors recapture the romance of a bygone era through exhibits and aboard a restored passenger train that links the past to the present and small-town America to the world on a 22-mile excursion through the Rolling Fork River Valley. The 5,000-square-foot museum is a replica of the original brick L&N New Haven depot and holds more than 70 pieces of rail equipment, plus dining car exhibit, ticket office and a display of steam locomotive whistles. Tracks display restored rolling stock. The museum hosts rail celebrities, including Thomas The Tank Engine™, and offers themed excursions: train robberies, mystery theatre, meals a la the Golden Era of Railroad Dining. The museum accommodates groups, reunions, field trips and birthday and anniversary celebrations.

ABOUT BARDSTOWN (http://www.sampleourspirit.com/), KY | Located in the heart of Kentucky Bourbon Country and situated at the trailhead of the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail, Bardstown (http://www.sampleourspirit.com/) is more familiarly known as the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” It is home to five distilleries, including Barton 1792 and Willett Distillery and these three Kentucky Bourbon Trail distilleries: Heaven Hill, Maker’s Mark and Jim Beam. Major attractions include the “Stephen Foster Story,” Kentucky’s official outdoor drama that takes place in My Old Kentucky Home State Park; the Civil War Museum of the Western Theatre (one of the four most significant such museums in the country); The Kentucky Railway Museum, where Thomas the Tank Engine is known to put in appearances; My Old Kentucky Dinner Train; and the narrated Heaven Hill Trolley tour. Additionally, Bardstown has four 18-hole golf courses, three wineries, two haunted tours and numerous religious attractions. It was selected as the “Most Beautiful Small Town in America” in the Rand McNally/USA Today 2012 “Best of the Road” contest and designated a certified Kentucky Cultural District in 2013, one of only six Kentucky cities to achieve this honor. www.facebook.com/BardstownKY