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 Post subject: Tahquamenon Falls Train & Riverboat for sale
PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2023 8:50 pm 

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Located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the Tahquamenon Falls Train & Riverboat has been listed for sale. The current owners will be retiring at the end of the 2023 season, after more than 40 years at the helm. With 5-1/2 miles of track, it is home of the longest two-foot gauge railroad in the country.

More information can be found on the railroad's website (https://www.trainandboattours.com/copy-of-tours-prices) and Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064679141736).


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 Post subject: Re: Tahquamenon Falls Train & Riverboat for sale
PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2023 1:27 pm 

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Has anyone here ever been on this tour? I found it years ago, when creating my links directory. Looking at it, I have no idea how it survives. They do one boat tour a day and it takes 6-1/2 hours. 35 minutes each way on the train and then 2 hours each way on the boat.

The falls looks interesting, but that's a long trip and if you want to visit the falls, you can simply go to the state park, hike about 1/2 mile trail and you're there.

The train appears to go through travel through some woods and fields, nice enough, but not seeing anything amazing. I do enjoy spending lots of time in nature but I'm having a hard time figuring out how they get enough customers to survive for all this time?


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 Post subject: Re: Tahquamenon Falls Train & Riverboat for sale
PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2023 1:31 pm 

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Excellent history of the line can be found here, which answers a lot of questions on how and why it was created. Turns out it was a standard gauge line that ran to a mill at one point. They re-gauged it and began the tourist operation.

They must be doing something right, they've been around for 95 years!

Tommy Thompson in Anacortes, WA had proposed doing the same thing there, converting an abandoned BN line to 18" gauge for his train.

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