Southern Appalachia Railway Museum has announced it's Secret City Scenic Excursion Train schedule for June, which includes three excursions on June 5 and three runs of their Secret City Festival Special during the festival, on June 19. Also on June 19, The Dinner Train at Oak Ridge is scheduled for 6 p.m.
     The excursions and the Festival Specials will run at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Each ride lasts about one hour and fifteen minutes, and includes a narrative about the historic railroad and the Manhattan Project that it served during World War II.  
     Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children ages three through 12. Reservations are suggested.
     The non-profit museum will operate a booth at the Secret City Festival, where railroad-themed merchandise will be available for purchase and reservations for the Festival Special on Saturday can be made.
     The dinner train at 6 p.m. June 19 is by advance reservation and payment. Tickets are $65 per person, and riders are treated to a trip back to the time when the major passenger railroads competed with each other to provide a level of dining pleasure that equaled the finest hotels of the period.
     Reservations for all trains can be made by calling the museum at (865) 241-2140. The trains board next to the Heritage Center in East Tennessee Technology Park on highway 58, about 10 miles west of Downtown Oak Ridge. More information is available at their Web site www.southernappalachia.railway.museum.
     Southern Appalachia Railway Museum is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to the acquisition, restoration and operation of historic rail equipment that formerly served on railroads in Tennessee and the South.
     The museum's members take pride in seeing their efforts result in the return of rolling stock to Tennessee rails and watching the pleased expressions on faces of the passengers. Membership is open to anyone 18 or older who has a love of trains, and annual dues are only $30 the first year and $20 each year thereafter.

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