Rio trolley on Amazing Race

Sloan · **Posted:** Tue May 03, 2011 2:36 pm

The preview for the final episode (CBS this Sunday) of The Amazing Race has a Rio trolley car scene.

Here's a short YouTube clip showing some West Virginia University students carousing on board one of these open cars.

Sloan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB0boEOeAMg

wesp · **Posted:** Tue May 03, 2011 3:25 pm

I saw the Rio car in the background of highlights for next week. I did not know that Rio still had open cars. Arethese from teh same vintage as the cars imported to the US in the 1960s?

Wesley

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Tue May 03, 2011 5:28 pm

This one is pretty well known. You can also find it in episodes of CSI Miami.

Steve Freer · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:24 pm **Posts:** 380

Back in the "boom years"* of the Chattanooga Choo Choo complex, they had an open-sided Rio trolley to go along with the two re-gauged New Orleans streetcars. They didn't use the open-sided car much because kids kept jumping on and off. I think it eventually went back to Rio.

BTW: CCC only has one of the NO streetcars now as they resold one back to the South.

*The Chattanooga Choo Choo (CCC) was at one time the #1 tourist attraction in Tennessee. But that was WAY before Dollywood!

artschwartz · **Posted:** Wed May 04, 2011 3:48 pm

As I recall, the Rio open car that was in Chattanooga is now in Memphis, heavily rebuilt. None of the Rio open cars imported in the 1960's were ever returned to Rio.