Mid/late 90s it was NB and stopped in College Station. We ran into another family we knew there. We heard we could buy tickets so we did and took our friend with us and his mom picked us up in Waco (or Temple, I dont remember...)
It was a cool ride and tons of folks at all the crossings waving.
We sat at a rural crossing North of Navasota. We got there more than an hour early, and she was more than a half hour late. She was making a good 55-60mph by calibrated eyeball. After she went by, the 20? Cars at that crossing meandered into town to see her parked downtown. Since she came in from the north, they had to close the main street for quite awhile since her tail crossed it. After about 30 min off she went.
For anyone going to see her in the next few trips. It seems that the schedule is merely a suggestion. And the "tracker" of their website is herky jerky at best. It freezes then updates miles at a time.
So go early, and don't necessarily count on the tracker.