The Battle Ground, Yacolt & Chelatchie Prairie Railroad offers weekend excursion trains from Yacolt in the spring, summer and fall. Santa is aboard near Christmas; in the summer, the train is sometimes "robbed" in the Old West style by bandits on horseback. (James Rexroad for The Columbian)Photo Gallery
YACOLT — Wearing a fuzzy brown trapper hat, eyeglasses and a warm winter jacket with an assortment of decorative pins but no gloves, Jerry Jacobus tapped an attendance clicker as the passengers filtered onto the train. The clicker read: 164.
As the train departed toward Moulton Falls, Jacobus, the conductor, chatted easily with the passengers perched on the benches of an open Battle Ground, Yacolt & Chelatchie Prairie Railroad car — the railroad name is abbreviated as BYCX — operating on the Chelatchie Prairie Railroad.
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