Join Us for a Ride on the Willow Express - A Train Ride Through Old Florida

Join Us for a Ride on the Willow Express - A Train Ride Through Old Florida. Tickets will cost $22 each plus tax. You may bring guests.

Please purchase your ticket at the Florida Railroad Museum here -> https://www.frrm.org/train-rides/

Under Willow Express click on Book Now, navigate to November 1, 2026 and select the 2:00 PM train ride and purchase your tickets.

After you purchase your tickets please RSVP here that you are attending. Please sign up only if you are serious about attending.

TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. This is a policy of the railroad.

There are snacks and soft drinks on the train available for purchase. There are several new restaurants along US 301 in Parrish and Ellenton and we can decide if we want to get an early dinner that day.

The Florida Railroad Museum was founded to preserve Florida’s railroad history. Come appreciate the sights and sounds of Florida railroading as it existed in the 1940s and 1950s. Some of the rail the train runs on is the original rail that was laid in the 1920's.

The train operates on a six mile rail line between Parrish and Willow, Florida in rural Manatee County. Built by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in the early 1920s, this was part of the original rail line through Manatee County.