The Grand Canyon Railway is more than an alternative means of transportation. This Grand Canyon train ride offers parents an opportunity to relax and it provides kids with a fun break from the car. Pulled by steam engines in summer and vintage locomotives the remainder of the year, a train trip on the Grand Canyon Railway is a journey through the Wild West complete with lowly desperados, bandits and train robbers. And if your family vacation takes you to Arizona from Thanksgiving through Christmas, take a rain ride to the “North Pole” on the Polar Express.