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2017 Pumpkin Trains
Greg Elems & Paul Finnegan


Page last updated:  Wed Jul 22 11:14:27 AM PDT 2026

Slide 1 Museum Entrance. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 2 Pumpkins Ready for the Patch. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 3 Inside the Museum. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 4 Setting up the Food Sales. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 5 Almost Ready. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 6 Food Table Ready. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 7 Volunteer Fire Department Setting up the Cotton Candy Maker. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 8 Cotton Candy for Sale. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 9 Loren Ross Moving the Pumpkins to the Patch. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 10 Eugene Vicknair Driving Back from the Pumpkin Patch before the Board Meeting. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 11 KC Dunn and Ethan Doty Heading Out to the Pumpkin Patch. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 12 Skeleton in a Box. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 13 Ghosts and Ghouls were Everywhere! - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 14 Unhappy Pumpkins in the Baggage Cart. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 15 Even the Fire Truck was Haunted. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 16 Ghoul by the Museum Store. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 17 KC Dunn is Ready to Serve Visitors in the Museum Store. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 18 The Face Painting was Very Popular With the Young Ones. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 19 Haunted Railcar. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 20 This Way to the Haunted Railcar. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 21 Ready for An Autopsy? - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 22 Your Table Will be Ready in a Minute. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 23 Autopsy Anyone? - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 24 Inside the Haunted Railcar. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 25 Open Bar. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 26 Waiting Just for You. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 27 Waiting to Serve You. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 28 The Pumpkin Patch Waiting for the First Trainload Of Pumpkin Hunters. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 29 Pumpkin Patch is Ready. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 30 Witch in the Pumpkin Patch. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 31 WP 707 at Milward Switch With the First Trainload Of Pumpkin Hunters. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 32 Unloading the First Trains Passengers for the Pumpkin Hunt. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 33 Bil Jackson Standing in the Doorway Of the Baggage Car Waiting to Help the Passengers Load Their Pumpkins Up. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 34 Engineer Matthew Elems in the Cab Of WP 707 Waiting to Return to the Loading Platform With a Load Of Happy Passengers and Their Pumpkins. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 35 Loren Ross Protecting the Shove Back from the Pumpkin Patch. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 36 Fred Elenbaas Waiting for the First Loading for the First Night Run Of the Pumpkin Express. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 37 SP 2873 Sitting Out at the Pumpkin Patch Waiting for a Load Of Passengers to Pick Out Their Pumpkins. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 38 Bil Jackson in the Baggage Car Waving to the Photographer and Curious Riders Checking Out Who Hes Talking Too. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 39 Caboose Riders. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 40 Portola′s Volunteer Fire Departments Haunted Passenger Car was Popular After Dark. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 41 WP 805 a Lit up by the Backup Light on the MP Caboose Heading Back to the Loading Platform. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 42 Pumpkin Patch at Night. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 43 Ali Barbato and Ethan Doty Manning the Pumpkin Sale Table. - Photo by Paul Finnegan

Slide 44 Pumpkin Patch Second Weekend

Slide 45 This was after the first run to the Pumpkin Patch on the second Saturday, people waiting to board the train for their ride to the Pumpkin patch. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 46 Steve Habeck on the SN caboose waiting for the new passengers to start boarding. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 47 The weather pretty much cooperated, but we had some clouds to cool things down for the second run. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 48 The pumpkin patch with an early crowd searching for the perfect pumpkin. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 49 Bart Hansen at the pumpkin patch in costume. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 50 Ali Doty at the pumpkin patch keeping things in order and ready to weigh the pumpkins. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 51 Another train load of pumpkin hunters. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 52 Our night train waiting for the passengers to start loading up for the first run out to the pumpkin patch - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 53 One of the Portola Fire department volunteers who helped make a few of the night runs a bit more scary. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 54 The baggage car was a popular place to ride and watch for ghosts on the night run. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 55 Charlie Spikes waiting to help load the pumpkins into the baggage car. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 56 The baggage car was a popular place to ride and watch for ghosts on the night runs. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 57 The Las Plumas 4H sold chili, hotdogs, corn bread and other baked goodies, seen here getting ready for Saturday′s night run. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 58 WP 805 lit by the caboose of the night express on the last run back to the loading platform from the pumpkin patch. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 59 Sunday′s first load of passengers selecting their pumpkins. - Photo by Greg Elems

Slide 60 More pumpkin hunters finding that perfect pumpkin. - Photo by Greg Elems


Page last updated:  Wed Jul 22 11:14:27 AM PDT 2026