page_title: Niles Canyon Railway
section_title: Rail excursions
hierarchical_section_title: Niles Canyon Railway / Rail excursions
context_page_description: The Niles Canyon Railway is a heritage railway running through Niles Canyon, between Sunol and the Niles district of Fremont in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States. The railway is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Niles Canyon Transcontinental Railroad Historic District. The railroad is operated and maintained by the Pacific Locomotive Association which preserves, restores and operates historic railroad equipment. The NCRy features public excursions with both steam and diesel locomotives along a well-preserved portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
context_section_description: The railway's 2013 regular scheduled excursions run on the first and third Sundays each month in January–March and September–October; first and third Saturday and Sunday each month, April–August.  Several trips are run, generally alternating between steam locomotives and diesel locomotives, with both open and enclosed passenger cars.  See the railway's website for exact schedules and for special trains.
  Group charters are also available, from a single caboose to an entire train. During the Christmas period, special "Train of Lights" trips run.
  Passengers may board at the western end of the line in Fremont, at the Niles station site adjacent to the Union Pacific Coast Line on which Amtrak operates their Capitol Corridor service. The unrelated Niles Depot Museum displays model railroads and railroad artifacts nearby. Passengers may also board at the 1884 Sunol depot, which is the last surviving example of a Southern Pacific standard Combination Depot #7. Future plans for restoration of the historic Sunol Depot include interpretive educational displays.
caption: Train of Lights, 2006.
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