The picturesque town of Atlanta, Indiana musters an annual festival that celebrates the works of individual artists and artisans and their connection to a healthy earth. Atlanta New Earth Festival. This town of 800+ residents hosts 80,000 visitors at the annual fest that hosts more than 600 individual artists and food vendors.

Think Parking! The Indiana Transportation Museum has the solution with the Festival Train. With an influx of visitors, you can see that parking for the New Earth Festival could be distant from the action. Arrive in the middle of all the activities in air-conditioned comfort! The Indiana Transportation Museum provides round-trip transportation to the New Earth Festival with the "Festival Train."

No Reservations! Reservations are not needed but are available, so you can wait until the last minute to realize you just can't pass up this festival. The train departs from the train museum ( Museum in Noblesville ) in Noblesville's Forest Park and transports passengers directly to the center of Atlanta and the festival.

Schedule: The Museum's trains make five round-trips each day of this two-day event, see the schedule at left.

Caboose Rides: Also, if only one member of your family is a true shopper and the spouse and kids want more than just food, walk the two short blocks north to County Line Road. There you will find an additional ITM locomotive attached to several historic cabooses. For a slight charge, you can experience a train ride as freight crews rode - in the caboose. These cabooses will travel north to Tipton County Road 450 South, a mile and a half, and then return to the New Earth Festival.

Shoppers' Friend: When you find your heart's desire among the arts and crafts, purchase it and bring it back on the train. All but the very largest of items can be carried on board passenger coaches. If it will fit in your car, it will fit in our train!