Edaville USA - New Steam?

boilerwash · **Posted:** Fri Dec 06, 2013 2:33 pm

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Darn few amusement parks are running steam these days. Unless they are Disneyland they rarely have the money to keep a real steam locomotive in operation.

Taking into account what people would consider "real" steam such as equipment 3 foot gauge or larger and built during the steam era you get:

Disneyland (NdeM Narrow Gauge ?)
Disneyworld (Yucatan Banana Engines)
Tweetsie (ET&WNC #12 and the WP&Y Mikado)
Dollywood (WP&Y Mikados)
Knotts Berry Farm (D&RG equipment?)
Silverwood Theme Park (H.K. Porter)
Dry Gulch USA (Various 36" gauge)
Silver Dollar City (Various Foreign 24" Gauge)

If you take into account Crown Metal Engines (they're fart burners but I personally count them as steam) and small gauge amusement purpose built engines theres:

Little-A-Merika (Very nice 16" Gauge)
Busch Gardens Florida (Crown)
Kings Island (Crown)
Six Flags St. Louis (Crown)
Hershey Park (Crown)
Lagoon Amusement Park (Crown)
Busch Gardens Virginia (Crown)
Neverland Ranch (Crown, kinda sorta counted I guess)

southern154 · **Joined:** Mon Jun 24, 2013 12:54 pm **Posts:** 320

Mount Royal wrote:

ted50 wrote:

But is is still great to see some new steam on the property. Darn few amusement parks are running steam these days. Unless they are Disneyland they rarely have the money to keep a real steam locomotive in operation.

Dollywood does a pretty decent job of running steam.

Amen, One quick question not to hijack the thread, but I was at Dollywood not too long ago and did not see #70 in the shop or outside, and noticed that 192 is hauling all of the trains this year, what happened to 70?

solar1953 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:30 pm **Posts:** 56

You can add Six Flags Over Texas to the first list...they still run two Sugar Plantation locomotives from Louisiana, and both are still steam powered.

tomgears · **Posted:** Sun Dec 08, 2013 5:28 pm

Don't forget about Cedar Point in Ohio where they have been running real steam locomotives for 50 years.

http://www.toledoblade.com/A-E/2013/08/ ... ahead.html