The Train
Fremont
Dinner Train, a for-profit corporation, was founded by a group of
eight investors in August of 1988. Negotiations were consummated
with the Eastern Nebraska Chapter of the National Railway Historical
Society to operate on their tracks running from Fremont to Hooper,
Nebraska (representing fifteen miles of track). The agreement
reached then carried forward, calls for the Historical Society doing
business as the Fremont and Elkhorn Valley Rail Road to provide an
engine and crew to pull our dining cars.
Actual operations began
on October 22, 1988 with our car Elkhorn River, while our second car
Maple Creek was renovated. Virtually all of the remodeling was
accomplished by local trades people and it joined the train by
December 15, 1988. Over the course of the next two years, main-line
sound and a closed circuit television/VCR/video system were
installed. Additional refinements have continued to be made to these
two cars both in decor and various systems. A new power car (N&W
#410) was purchased in 1990 to provide a more adequate power source
and allow potential future growth.
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The Melodramas
Since 1995 melodramas
have been performed on the Fremont Dinner train headquartered at
Fremont, Nebraska. Shown above are, (Front row) Shannon
Marple-Hespe, Jenn Parker and Kate Eisenhour, (Back row.) Jared
Minary and Ed Dill from the 1997 production of D. Chapelle's "Three
Tickets to Timberwolf"
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Other Entertainment
Very
popular Murder Mysteries are performed all year around on the train
as are USO Shows and Wine Tasting Runs. There are also special runs
for Christmas week, New Years Day, Valentine's Day and Halloween, as
well as Oktoberfest.
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