Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad

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The Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad is a heritage railway that offers public excursion train rides May through October. The depot is located in the Historic 1887 Rock Island Depot, Old Abilene Town, south of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

The train travels along an old Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad line that used to run from Herington to Salina. Currently it operates on approximately 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of trackage between Abilene and Enterprise. At Enterprise passengers are allowed to explore the caboose and locomotive. Seating in the diner or in open-sided gondola cars is available.