Western Round-Up Trains with Live Music

Ride the full size excursion train in the Town of El Dorado.El Dorado Western Railroad4650 Oriental Dr.El Dorado, CA 95623The El Dorado Western Railroad is hosting the inaugural Western Round-Up Train with live music on November 7 & 14. Board the train at the El Dorado Depot, enjoy the open-air excursion car train ride to Missouri Flat Rd. and return. Along the way, you'll be treated to the toe-tapping tunes of Bronco Charlie!Trains depart:10:00 AM12:00 PM2:00 PMTickets go on sale at 9:30 AM:$12 for adults & children 9 & up$3 for children 4 to 8Free for children 3 & underA processing fee is added to each paid ticket purchased online. An adult (age 18 and up) must accompany each child and toddler ticket holder. Unaccompanied child and toddler tickets will be refunded.Call (530) 663-3581 for questions and to confirm departure times. The telephone is only monitored on scheduled train ride days from 9 am to 2 pm. Please remember that there are a limited number of seats available for each train; so, make your reservation early. A limited number of walk-on tickets will be available from the station agent. Riders 17 years old and younger must be accompanied by a responsible adult. No animals are allowed on board. The round trip (50 to 60 minutes) takes you east from the depot on the historic Southern Pacific Placerville Branch rail line. The train stops short of Missouri Flat Road, before returning to the depot.Enjoy your train ride! You are riding on rails laid down over 150 years ago. The rail line was envisioned as the route over the Sierra Nevada Range for the transcontinental railroad. However, plans fell short when the Donner Route was selected. Yet, progress continued. Tracks reached Latrobe in 1864 and Shingle Springs in 1865. With much fanfare, the route was extended to Placerville in the spring of 1888. For next 100 years you could board the train in Placerville for any rail destination in the United States. The railroad served El Dorado County by shipping lumber, pears and minerals to distant markets. And it brought goods and passengers into the county. This line truly was the lifeblood of the county before the widespread use of automobiles and trucks.We'll see you on the train!