TRAIN DAY 2026 - TD26

DATE ANNOUNCEMENT

Saturday, MAY 16, 2026

It is a tradition that goes back some years (no one can remember how many exactly.)  A post May 1 chance to see the CA Coast via the train, and to do a pub crawl through Carlsbad. May 9, 2020 was to be the 10th anniversary of Train Day. The pandemic may have derailed us, but we are back on track. 

The date of Train Day usually aligns with the national celebration of train day, to see more details - click here. This year, we will celebrate TD25 on the same day as the  National Train Day celebration. 

Invited guests can ride the rails from the South, or the North, to meet in Carlsbad, CA.

We start with breakfast, a sensible thing to do. Then we climb aboard the train, where we play games, eat Jello and enjoy the views until we reach our stop in Carlsbad. There, the crawl begins.  

The recent closing of Perry's necessitates more train Day ingenuity, watch for the updated schedule soon. 

See a full updated schedule under "The Day."