Trains also run Monday to Wednesday in July and August and Saturday to Wednesday from September 26 to October 12. There are four or five trips a day, taking approximately one hour for the round trip. View an image of locomotive 136 . Trains run daily until October 13, and on weekends from October 18 to Novermber 23, 1997. There are four round trips a day, except on Sunday, when there are three round trips.
Day passes allow passengers to ride on any train in a given day.
Trains run on Sundays and holidays year round, Saturdays from May to October, and weekdays from Canada Day to Labour Day. The railway's locomotives are former industrial switchers by Whitcomb and General Electric. Trains leave from the CN St. James station, near Portage Ave. There are two round trips each Sunday from June through September. The Prairie Dog Central did not operate in 1997, since Canadian National will no longer allow the use of its lines.