Abilene & Smokey Valley Railroad As

“Review by the board president.”

“UPON WRITTEN REQUEST.”

“Promote and preserve the railroad history of the area through tourist train rides and membership dues and donations. In 2024 we hosted 21,353 riders from 58% of kansas' communities, 45 states and over 10 foreign countries. Our market area includes denver to omaha to st. Lous to oklahoma city. We operated over 220 trains in 2024 from our historic 1887 rock island depot in abilene. We continued an aggressive marketing and branding effort through a number of social media, publication, and radio platforms. We continued our relationship with heritage rail management, durango, co. We expended our seasonal event train, "peanuts pumpkin patch express- and "cowtown santa express" trains with positive results. We also expanded our dinner train operations with an additional dining car that raised our captacity to 160 riders per train. We began developing an enhanced eductional program plan to tie railroads, our operating replica hoffman grist mill and general store, and the crop scenery along our right of way, into an exclusive oppoertunity for riders to experience the entire farm to table agricultural process during a single trip on our railroad. During 2024, we were named the official kansas heritage railroad by the kansas legislature through k.s.a. 73-4401. Our iconic 1919 steam locomotive atsf3415 was likewise named the official kansas steam locomotive through k.s.a. 73-4301. We also received k-state's huck boyd national institute for rural development as the 2024 huck boyd leaders of the year for tourism. We have a dedicated working board that meets monthly to oversee the operations of the organization and assist our general manager with a variety of necessary tasks.”