Cass is a really long ride, like 4 hrs, so eat before you go, I would recommend going in the early fall or late spring, you do git covered in coal soot, so middle of the summer is an unpleasent ride.
Durbin, we went for the first ride of the year, the snow was still on, they actually un-hooked the locomtive and was ramming snow drifts. It was also cool that the passenger car had a coal burning pot-belly stove for heat. And after the ride was over they fed everyone at the local mom and pop reasturant, it was the best chicken and dumplings I have ever ate.
