They head out toward Davenport, near Wilder Ranch State Park a couple miles out into the fields. It's about an hour round trip, which is in line with the Big Trees lights train which only heads a few miles up the old Olympia Branch (Summer trains go all the way to Felton). For both it's really more about the experience on the train than any destination.

We saw the 2:30 train roll by this afternoon under clearing skies. The dome was decorated and had a conductor leaning out the vestibule, but still no passengers. Word is the 4:15 train will be near capacity. The Big Trees train was fired up and poking out of the mission tunnel aroud the same time we saw the Santa Cruz Ry train. They have a single departure at 5pm this evening.