Little Kids and Tourist Trains (Midwest)

Well, I don't know what the age restrictions are on any tourist train ride in the entire country but, in my opinion, the "very young" or "infants" should NOT be permitted. It just doesn't seem logical for infants and such to be subjected to a noisy and possibly dirty (think coal smoke/smell) environment.

having ridden several different tourist trains I would chose http://mountainrailwv.com/choo...-mountain-salamander      for small children

Well, I found typing in "Dinner Train", gets you a list of them around the world, including the fact there is only one in Colorado (the Royal Gorge one), one in

Ohio (out of Cincinnati), and three or four each in Kentucky and Indiana.

With many of advancing age worrying about the possible extinction of our hobby,

and while I do not like wailing infants in coach while flying, which is a sardine can

punishment anyway, if kids don't get exposed to trains in this video game world,

then what?  Besides, there is room to move around, usually, on a tourist train, and

escape the noise.  Certainly plenty of screaming babies traveled by rail in our history,

when a lot less "affluency" dictated parents had to spring for baby sitters to go to the

grocery, or whatever.  It was said the parents involved did not trust their very young

infants to baby sitters.