Niles Canyon Railway

Niles Canyon Railway We offer train rides on vintage railroad equipment with boarding in Sunol and in the Niles district of Fremont.
(678)

Niles Canyon Railway is an operating railroad museum dedicated to preserving the equipment and experience of railroading in California's past along the route of the original Transcontinental Railroad right here in the San Francisco Bay Area. The full schedule including operating days and times of departure can be found at http://ncry.org/. Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/NilesCanyonRailRoad
T

witter: http://twitter.com/toots4ncry

Our wintertime Train of Lights runs from the day after Thanksgiving through just before the New Year. Tickets for the Train of Lights are available in the Fall. For the full Train of Lights schedule and to purchase tickets go to http://ncry.org/.

06/17/2026

You never knew what you may see when riding our trains through Niles Canyon. How about two different vehicles both made by different divisions of General Motors in 1949. Our Southern Pacific Electromotive Division 1949 built NW-2 #1423 locomotive as its works our train west toward Niles across our Brightside crossing with a '49 Cadillac Series 62 convertible just waiting its turn again for the open road. Two from the Class of '49. And did we mention, Dads love cars and trains, and we have tickets for this upcoming weekend including Father's Day available. We will leave a link to purchase your tickets for the weekend online today.
Video courtesy of Christopher Hauf Photography

We noted the blue flags up on one of our storage flags and wandered down last Saturday to find our Rio Grande stock car ...
06/16/2026

We noted the blue flags up on one of our storage flags and wandered down last Saturday to find our Rio Grande stock car getting new paint on its frame. Not the easiest job, but volunteer, Joe C., is in there literally and figuratively. Once the frame is done, a new wood floor will be installed. This will then let us more easily work on the upper part of the car which will see new paint and wood.
06.13.2026

With most of the welding complete on the car, our 'Hidden Lake' restoration team has been accelerating their paint prepa...
06/15/2026

With most of the welding complete on the car, our 'Hidden Lake' restoration team has been accelerating their paint preparation on this side of this Great Northern Ranch Car. It won't be long until paint starts to fly, and we would welcome your donation to help offset the cost. We will leave a link in the comments where you can donate online or via mail. This is really exciting as the other side of the car is already done.
06.13.2026

Our recently promoted conductor, Gabe G., had the helm of our trains this Saturday. It is great to have such a great n...
06/14/2026

Our recently promoted conductor, Gabe G., had the helm of our trains this Saturday. It is great to have such a great new group of volunteers working their way through the ranks to leadership positions with our train crews. And he chose to do it on his birthday as well!

Our crews hope you will join us soon for a scenic train ride as soon as next weekend. We will leave a link to tickets in the comments.
06.14.2026

Thanks Secret San Francisco for the nice article on visiting and riding our railroad. We hope we are not too much of a...
06/13/2026

Thanks Secret San Francisco for the nice article on visiting and riding our railroad. We hope we are not too much of a secret as we will celebrate our 40th Anniversary in Niles Canyon next year. Yet, we hope new people will join us for a ride this summer and fall!

1 hour from SF: This 150-year-old railway has started running passenger train rides on select weekends — NPS calls it one of the 'best preserved segments of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the western U.S.' 🚂

🔗Read more: bit.ly/Niles-Canyon-Railway

Come get a seat up close to history... Walk-up tickets for our Sunol to Niles round trip (no we do not make you walk b...
06/13/2026

Come get a seat up close to history... Walk-up tickets for our Sunol to Niles round trip (no we do not make you walk back!) train rides through scenic Niles Canyon are available for both the 10:30AM and 1:00PM departures at our Sunol station (6 Kilkare Road, Sunol, CA). Please come ~45 minutes before departure to park (plenty of off street parking at our depot) and purchase your tickets to ride at our depot. Tickets for Sunday and next weekend are still available on our website. Our M200 Ride East rides for Saturday are sold out, and we have one ticket for Sunday. We have some availability next weekend. All Aboard!

06/12/2026

Train rides are back this weekend, 6/13 & 6/14, and next weekend. Grab your tickets and come for a ride from our Sunol station right here in the Bay Area!

They are working on the railroad. Our Wednesday Maintenance-of-Way Team is out today replacing ties in our railroad whi...
06/04/2026

They are working on the railroad. Our Wednesday Maintenance-of-Way Team is out today replacing ties in our railroad which needs constant maintenance to keep it in top shape. New volunteers are always welcome to join this team. It’s great exercise! We will leave a link to our Volunteer page in the comments.
Image courtesy of Bob Pratt

Address

6 Kilkare Road
Sunol, CA
94586

Telephone

+15109968420

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Niles Canyon Railway posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category