The Reno Fun Train has been chugging along its route from the East Bay to Reno since 1963. It began as a way to stimulate wintertime business in Reno and also keep the Southern Pacific Railroad ...

Climb aboard the Reno Fun TrainThe train pulls into the Emeryville station, with someone in uniform hanging out the door grinning and waving. “Welcome to the Fun Train! Let’s have some fun ...

Climb aboard the Reno Fun TrainThe weekend Reno Fun Train is known for its special dance car with two dance floors.

The train schedule lists several departure and arrival times for the Friday-Sunday trips, which take about 61/2 hours. Our train pulled into downtown Reno about 9 p.m. The package includes the ...

There's a certain peril attached to picking a topic like Reno's Fun Trains and undertaking to write anything with any certainty about it. Or them. The Fun Trains highballed on and off for about 40 ...

Actually, it’s the Reno Fun Train, which most Fridays in winter carries hedonistic revelers and, yeah, slightly more sedate folks, too, over the Sierra and down into the Biggest Little City in ...

Started in 1963 to get gambling hordes up to the ghost town that is Reno in winter, the Fun Train has grown into a mobile tailgater for 680 people, a 15-car block party that attracts Bay Area and ...

Get there: To depart from the Amtrak Emeryville station, ask for an Amtrak bus ticket that takes you from the Transbay Terminal to Emeryville, where you’ll catch the Reno Fun Train. Total round ...