Tickets are $6 per person for regular seats or $7 for seats in the cupola of the caboose. There is a limit of 8 cupola seats per ride, which will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Advance tickets are not available for this event.

About the Flagg Coal Company No. 75:

The Flagg Coal Company locomotive’s permanent home is with the Steam Railroading Institute of Michigan, but it visits tourist railroads across the country so people can experience watching an authentic steam engine in operation. The engine debuted at the N.C. Transportation Museum April 26 during the annual Family Rail Days Festival. It is a small, industrial-type engine, with an 0-4-0 wheel configuration. Built in 1930 by Vulcan Iron Works in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., it was first purchased by the Flagg Coal Company in Pennsylvania, but then sold to the Solvay Process Quarry in New York, where it was used to push cart loads of rock. In 1954, it was purchased by railroad conservationist Dr. Stanley Groman. After Groman’s death in 1991, father and son team Byron and John Gramling purchased and restored the locomotive.