Meh. "SCENIC" was a stretch, in my opinion (1 and 3/4 hour Bartlett trip). Trees and backyards.

Eta: (responding to company response to my review because I can't figure out how to reply currently lol)

Yes, we read the description. If it had just been my other half and myself, I'd probably have skipped the review all together and chalked it up as a live and learn. We didn't have a BAD time and I apologize for not making that clear.

The cars are historical, beautiful and quaint. The kids loved the atmosphere,as did the adults. However, we have family visiting from Fla interested in seeing scenic views and NHs obvious beauty. SO, We chose this trip as it fit in the time frame we needed to burn before checking into Purity Springs after reading the description. We didn't see much of anything but backyards and the trees directly outside the train. I WILL include the couple of pretty views here, to balance my review. On top of the lack of scenery, the PA system was down so we had no narration, no "heads up, here comes a photo opportunity". I didn't expect that to impact the trip much,but it truly did. I am not sure I've EVER left a poor review and that's because local is important to us and I truly want to support them. In all honesty I felt moved to leave this when the Google notification came up because as far as SCENIC (which IS in the company name) goes, it was not. Literally the drive to you and then the drive to the resort provided a million times better scenery and THAT was sort of disappointing and kind of embarrassed me, as far as taking the visiting family aboard. It was almost $300 dollars for us and that's not money we always have to spend. I'd absolutely love to try another route and suspect you're correct that we'd enjoy it. This one was the only option we had today and to be honest I feel horrible that we didn't enjoy what we saw outside the train as much as we enjoyed the really great historic atmosphere of the train and station themselves. I do feel like I should apologize for leaving a less than stellar review because I respect the local business and the efforts you all put forth. I left it because I did read the description to the adults of our group and we expected rustic and simple....but the scenic views were far less than we expected, the PA system impacted our trip and I believe we would not be alone in this feeling. I hope I've made sense and the reasons we weren't really satisfied are clear. I do 100% feel badly about leaving a poor review, but this was a lot of money for us, and if others read the reviews before taking the trip, I do believe our experience matters and maybe this particular route/trip may not be the best choice for others either. Thank you for taking the time to reply, I appreciate it. If we end up trying again, and it's a better experience, I promise I will update this review to reflect it.