Due to an error with our card processing company, we are currently unable to process online ticket sales. Please call us to make you reservation.

We apologize for any inconvenience and we will update you when it comes back online.

You've waited patiently for it, and now it has arrived!

That's right, online ticketing is finally here, ready to make it easy for you to buy your train tickets! Our development team has had it's ups and downs, and of course some delays...but we made it happen.

If you browse on over to the tickets page, you will see that the view has changed! You can see a list of upcoming events, as before, but it now displays a "buy tickets" button! From here, it is so easy to reserve your tickets on the web! You can also find a link to buy tickets via our traditional excursions listings on the excursions page.

We have another feature, called Promotozoa, which allows you to share our events on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Digg, and others (Have you visited our Facebook page?). Click the Promotozoa button, select the social networking site to share an event on, and log in to your account! Rest assured, your account details are never seen by us. It simply sends a link to the networking site!

Another great feature is for those who use an iPhone or iPod touch. We know how frustrating it can be to use your iPhone to browse the web. So to make life a bit easier, when you browse to one of our whistletix powered pages, you will be redirected to a page formatted to fit your screen. Yes, you CAN buy tickets on your phone!

Of course there are bound to be some small issues as well. If you come across something that doesn't seem right, please report it to our Webmaster via the contact page, and we will look into it ASAP.

We look forward to seeing the orders coming in soon!  Thanks!!

Finger Lakes Staff (c) 2009 Mike FlanneryJoin Finger Lakes Railway for the Official Kick-Off of the Passenger Season. Go to our Excursion Page to purchase your tickets online for this event!

Starting in Victor, NY, the Blues-n-Brews Train will board on Saturday, May 9 for a 5pm departure. Enjoy Live Music and Cash Bar onboard. Dinners not available on board, but there are plenty of great restaurants in the Village of Victor to visit before or after the train ride. For more information click here. Village of Victor, NY.

Then on SUNDAY, Throw Momma ON the Train at 1pm with Carnations and stories to boot. Enjoy a two-hour ride, sponsored by Friends of the Railroad.

We have lots of fun planned for the year on the Finger Lakes Railway. We look forward to seeing your smiling face onboard.

Update: Please send us your photos and videos (or a link to them) and we would love to post some of them on our site! Email photos@fingerlakesscenicrailway.com!

On Saturday, April 18, you will see the Finger Lakes Railway passenger coaches Coach #7601 "Seneca”: © Ed Postrunning the old New York Central corridor from Canandaigua to Solvay with over 100 passengers from the New York Central Historical Society onboard. Society members are staying 2 nights at the Geneva Ramada Lakefront Hotel, and FGLK President, Mike Smith, is speaking at their conference dinner Saturday evening.

Train consist will be one FGLK locomotive, TBA, and three former Via Rail passenger coaches, now the FGLK 7602 (Canandaigua), 7601 (Cayuga), and 7202 (Seneca).

 Starting at 7:30am, passenger will park their vehicles at Geneva Station, a.k.a. the Depot 25 RestaurantShops at the Station on Railroad Ave, and board a bus headed for Canandaigua. Buses will deliver 104 passengers to the boarding location at Pleasant St. in Canandaigua. At 9am, the train departs, heading northeast to Shortsville and the Depot 25 restaurant and the Lehigh Valley Historical Society Museum.

At 9:30am, there will be a short layover at the museum and a photo run-by, time and weather permitting. Box lunches for the trip are provided by the Depot 25 restaurant while the Lehigh Valley Museum, ironically housed in an old NYCRR freight depot, will be open for viewing.

From there the train will head east to Clifton Springs, where there will be another short layover provided for folks to see the old freight and passenger depots, beautifully restored in Clifton Springs. Now a the Public Library and Storage facility, the village showcases its part of the railroad history. [Continued]

First off, we would like to thank everyone for being patient with us as we organize the schedule of events for 2009. We have been working hard to bring together our calendar. This year we are trying some new things, and of course we bring back some classics as well.

You will notice that the list on the excursion page is growing. Please keep checking that regularly because it can update several times a week. In case you didn't know, you can use an RSS feed reader to subscribe to the page, and it will let you know when we add new trips to the page.

We are also adding the ability to purchase ticket reservations online. We had hoped to get it up last year, but it did not work out. Let me assure you we are working feverishly behind the scenes to get it going for this year. One of the changes we have needed to make is to transfer our web page to a new server/host. This should go unnoticed by you, the user. One of the added benefits of our new host is a faster network. Our website page load speeds should increase significantly.

And in addition to the passenger business, we are building our freight site, and that should be online later this year. 

Now you know what's going on here, and we hope you will continue to be patient with us as we make these changes.