Meet the crew

Four hosts, one very punctual train

Our costumed hosts ride every NN-Bride train alongside the engineer and fireman. Children aged 3–12 get a Crew Stamp Card at boarding. Collect all four stamps and Conductor Barnaby hands over a brass-look No. 99 pin.

On every train

Conductor Barnaby

Barnaby is a big, cheerful bear in purple and gold. He waves the Bride away from the platform and gives the commentary on the climb up Bonanza Creek. He is never without his phone, which carries the train’s live timetable and a direct line to the depot. His job is to make sure you are back on Front Street exactly when the timetable says.

Ask him about: why the trestle has a speed limit of 8 km/h, and the day a moose held up the 13:30 for twenty minutes.

Stamp: a purple conductor’s cap.

On every train

Inspector Gus Grumble

Gus wears a green three-piece suit and a fedora, and he frowns in a way that is mostly for show. He checks every boarding pass, closes the doors two minutes before departure and keeps everyone seated in the open-air car while the train is moving. Under the scowl he is soft. Children who show him a full Stamp Card get a wink and a salute.

Ask him about: the rules of the Midnight Dome car, and why he still keeps a ticket punch from 1912.

Stamp: a green ticket punch.

Midnight Sun Special · Ruby’s Parlour

Miss Ruby

Miss Ruby is a white cat with golden curls, a jewelled tiara and a red gown trimmed in gold. She is the leading lady of the dance halls of 1898, and our railway is named after the Bride she rides. She hosts Ruby’s Parlour on daytime runs. On Friday and Saturday evenings in June and July she takes her 25-minute revue from car to car on the Midnight Sun Special.

Ask her about: the wedding party that gave the Bride her name in 1912.

Stamp: a red tiara.

Gold Fields Day

Professor Tobias Shell

The Professor is a turtle in a blue top hat, gold spectacles and a gold watch chain, and he never hurries. He leads the townsite walk at Grand Forks and runs the gold-panning lessons on Gold Fields Day. His tip for new panners: swirl slowly and let the water do the work.

Ask him about: how much gold came out of Bonanza and Eldorado creeks, and how to tell a gold flake from shiny mica.

Stamp: a blue top hat.

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