{"id":300890,"date":"2026-10-06T15:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300890\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:35:13","slug":"all-aboard-for-fall-railroad-offers-scenic-train-rides-in-berks-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300890\/","title":{"rendered":"All\u2011aboard for fall: Railroad offers scenic train rides in Berks | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY TWP., Pa. &#8211; Waves of red, orange, and gold are slowly covering trees across our region, and in Berks County, there&#8217;s a pretty scenic way you can take it all in.<\/p>\n<p>69 News Reporter Sydney Kay was in Albany Township, where a train ride comes with a front-row view of those beautiful fall colors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kemptontrain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WK&amp;S Railroad<\/a> is giving guests rides as the fall season gets into high gear.<\/p>\n<p>WK&amp;S Railroad Treasurer Linda Hartman said the railroad, which started in 1963, is an all-volunteer operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just keep the history of railroading alive,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Hartman said volunteers repair equipment, perform track work, and help run the Sunday events the railroad provides for guests.<\/p>\n<p>Hartman said fall is the railroad\u2019s busy season.<\/p>\n<p>Alyse Mitten, a volunteer for the railroad, said Sunday rides are at 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m., and 4 p.m. When guests pay for the regular train rides, guests can ride the train the rest of the day for free.<\/p>\n<p>She said the railroad has a snack shack, which has \u201cthe greatest food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robin Stiefel, Secretary of the WK&amp;S Railroad, said the railroad will hold a pumpkin picking event on Oct. 17 and 18, and on Oct. 24 and 25.<\/p>\n<p>Adults and kids can each pick a pumpkin. Guests can get kits, so they can put faces on their pumpkins. That\u2019s all included in the price.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 1, the railroad will hold an event that will benefit a local animal shelter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY TWP., Pa. &#8211; Waves of red, orange, and gold are slowly covering trees across our region, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[43863,349,4065,123877,128,130,129,123875,123876],"class_list":["post-300890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-albany-township","tag-berks-county","tag-fall-foliage","tag-pumpkin-picking","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-scenic-train-ride","tag-wks-railroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}