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Date: 2004-10 GHOST, GOBLINS, CABOOSES AND PUMPKINS; EVERY OCTOBER WEEKEND IS SPECIAL AT THE FOX RIVER TROLLEY MUSEUM October is around the corner. Colors are changing, Halloween ghosts and goblins await, and every weekend is a special one at the Fox River Trolley Museum! The fun starts on Sunday, Oct. 3, and continues Oct. 10, with Fall Caboose Train Rides. As the colors begin to change along the scenic Fox River and in the Jon Duerr Forest Preserve, there's no better place to watch than the cupola of the museum's Illinois Central R.R. caboose! Visitors can ride in both the caboose, built by the IC in Centralia in 1957, and aboard the museum's 1908-vintage Chicago Surface Lines electric locomotive L-202 both days. This will mark their last appearance in 2004. On Oct. 9 and 16, the Museum and the South Elgin Dep't. of Parks and Recreation provide hayrides, food and fun at County Park next to the Museum's grounds as part of its Harvest Festival. Both days, children 3-11 presenting pumpkins purchased at the village of South Elgin's County Park pumpkin patch will ride free. Those adults accompanying children who have purchased a pumpkin from the South Elgin patch will ride for $2, and other children 3-11 will ride for $1. For the first time, a special free movie train will deliver riders Oct. 9 only from the museum's Castlemuir station to the Jon Duerr Forest Preserve at 7 p.m., and return after the movie. One of the museum's most popular events, the Pumpkin Trolley, returns on Oct. 16, 17, 23 and 24. Get your pumpkin by riding a Fox River Line trolley to the Pumpkin Patch at Coleman Yard, where hundreds of pumpkins will await. Choose a pumpkin and take a photo in the Pumpkin Patch! Tickets to purchase pumpkins are $1 apiece, in addition to regular fares. The Haunted Trolley and the Halloween Ghost Train, both Oct. 30-31. An old favorite returns, and an all-new event debuts! The Haunted Trolley thrills children young and old during the day; no reservations are necessary and regular fares apply. Both evenings, the reserved-seating, after-hours Ghost Trains entertain children, their daddies and mummies! Those who dare can experience a campfire along the shores of the Fox with ghoulishly delightful ghost stories. Ghost Train fares are $5 for adults and $4 for children 1-11. Advance reservations are necessary for the Ghost Train by writing the museum, at P.O. Box 315, South Elgin, IL 60177-0315 or by e-mail through the museum's special events Web page, http://www.foxtrolley.org. The Fox River Trolley Museum is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to perpetuating the memories of Chicago's once-burgeoning electric railroad industry. Cars in operation or on display represent all three of the major Chicago interurban (inter-city) electric railways as well as Chicago's "L" and streetcar lines. All museum workers are volunteers dedicated to recreating a bygone era in mass transportation. The museum, at 361 S. LaFox St., on Route 31 in South Elgin, is open on operating days 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., except as noted. Regular fares are $3.50 for adults, $2 both for senior citizens and for children ages 3-11. Children under 3 ride free. For additional information, or to rent a train, call (847) 697-4676.
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