ESSEX, CT (WFSB) - Although the holiday season is still months away, it’s time to get in the Christmas spirit with Essex Steam Train and Riverboat. The company just announced that tickets for ...

Next week, Essex Steam Train and Riverboat will be supporting Valley Shore Animal Welfare League. During the week of Aug. 19, the donations will go to All Paws on Deck. Local.

Conductor Seth Simmons watches children play Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021, while families wait to board the Essex Steam Train's North Pole Express in Essex. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints ...

ESSEX, Conn. (WTNH) — “I get paid to do something that I love,” said Paul Lewis, road foreman of engines for Essex Steam Train. Since the first day of the Steam Train operation on July 26 ...

With the steam engine rolling down the tracks at 20 mph, some admitted they’d be running to catch the train. Others had loftier goals. "I’m going to beat the train today," Nora Toscano of ...

The Essex Steam Train and Riverboat announced on their website Wednesday that they have made the difficult but responsible decision to postpone their annual operation of The North Pole Express and ...

You can call it a Trike. Or maybe a Ferrike. It’s a ride on a train, followed by a cruise across the Connecticut River on a ferry and a hike to the top of a hill to visit a castle. Sound like… ...

The hot August sun beat down on a crowd of people gathered at the Saybrook Point station. Men in suits wiped the sweat from their brows, as women in huge hats fanned themselves in an attempt to kee… ...