(SFGate) - A group of mostly African American women who were kicked off the Napa Valley Wine Train in August, allegedly for being loud and disruptive, are suing the train’s owners for racial discrimination.

The women and their lawyer, Waukeen McCoy, scheduled a news conference in San Francisco on Thursday to announce the legal action for $11 million in damages.

Ten black women and one white woman, members of a book club called Sisters on the Reading Edge, boarded the train in Napa on Aug. 22 for their annual round-trip through wine country. They said they were laughing and having a good time, occasionally chatting with other passengers, when a train manager approached and asked them to lower their voices.

The women said the manager returned a little later and warned them they would be removed from the train if they didn’t pipe down. At St. Helena, halfway through the three-hour trip, they said, they were escorted out, past passengers in other cars, and were met by police from the Napa Valley Railroad and the city of St. Helena.

Less than a week after Lisa Johnson and the women in her Antioch book club were unceremoniously kicked off the Napa Wine Train for being too noisy a lawsuit may be on the horizon, Christin Ayers reports.

The train company refunded their $124 fares and provided a van to pick them up and take them back to Napa.