Sunday, June 22
8:00 am to 6:00 pm

The Café Lafayette Train in Lincoln, NH offers something for the whole family to share together. Enjoy a delicious lunch while you travel through a natural, wooded setting along the river, just minutes away from Franconia Notch. As you travel along in their vintage cars, you can relax, wave to the tubers and kayakers, and watch as young boys swing out over a long rope attached to Swimming Hole Bridge for a cool splash into the river.

You will tour the Boston & Maine’s famous Flying Yankee. The Flying Yankee is one of only three 3-car, diesel-electric streamliners of its type ever built. After nearly seven years of disassembly, re-engineering, fabrication and rebuilding, Phase I of the restoration was completed in the fall of 2004 and the Flying Yankee is now in Phase II of the lengthy restoration process. All three cars will be available to visit.

On your visit to Maple Grove Farms, you will enter under the Welcoming Green Awning and view the award-winning video, 'Vermont's First Industry – Maple Syrup', while sampling their yummy maple candies. A friendly, knowledgeable Tour Guide will take you through two floors of their factory. You'll see
100% pure, natural maple syrup packed on the filling line or watch gourmet dressings go by. Follow your Tour guide down to the kitchen and see Maple Candy being made with vintage equipment. View the room where a “whole lot of shaking” goes on!

Walk through the crystal room where the candy is set in tanks overnight to form its protective shell – then look right into the packing area and watch the candy being inspected and carefully hand-packed.

Next, stroll into the Sugar House Museum and learn about 'The Whole Sugaring Experience' ... and finally browse in the spacious red-roofed Cabin Shop, full of Maple Grove Farms of Vermont factory-direct products. Taste all the grades of Pure Maple Syrup and decide which one you like best.

Fare: $55 (includes lunch served on the train)