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Ride the Memorable V&T Candy Cane Express!

V&T CANDY CANE EXPRESS TRAIN

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See you next year for the 2025 season!

Trains Depart from the Virginia City Depot

Noon, 1:30pm and 3pm Departures

Nov 29, 30 & Dec 7,8 & 14, 15 & 21, 22

Please check in at WILL CALL inside the Virginia City Depot at least 10 minutes before departure time with your printed or phone receipt to pick up boarding passes. We reserve the right to sell your seats if you don’t check-in 10 minutes prior to scheduled departure time.

The last of the Turkey will be gone and snow will hopefully be blanketing the mountains of Northern Nevada! Jack Frost will beckon you inside, yet you and your kids will have energy to burn from your future feasts. So, what do you do?

Why take the train of course!

The Virginia & Truckee is excited to bring back our highly popular Candy Cane Express service for Christmas 2023! Following rails that have carried loved ones home for the holidays for 150 years, your train will take you from the cheerful and picturesque holiday-time Virginia City through the winter wonderland of the Comstock to Gold Hill.

Features of your train ride you’ll always remember and cherish:

  • Heated Passenger Cars
  • Reading of stories and singing of Christmas Carols along the way
  • Festively decorated exteriors and interiors from locomotive to caboose
  • Sipping on a complimentary cup of Virginia City’s famous hot chocolate or apple cider
  • Free cookie!
  • Spectacular views of a snowy Nevada straight from a postcard
  • Getting that unique gift from our historic depot or one of the Comstock’s many shops
  • Free parking across the street

If one is lucky enough, they may see one of our famous Mustangs roaming the hills dressed in a fluffy coat to keep them warm.

Make a lasting Holiday tradition! Reserve your ticket today!

Reservations are required and seating is assigned. Be sure to book early as trains will sell out quickly. Please choose carefully as all sales are final.

Reserve your tickets online. 

Virginia & Truckee Railroad Depot –  165 F Street, Virginia City, Nevada.

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Virginia City Depot:

166 F Street
Virginia City, Nevada 89440
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(775) 847-0380
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