Spartanburg, SC to remove Cleveland Park's miniature train

PaulWWoodring · **Posted:** Sat Sep 27, 2014 2:49 pm

My understanding from a friend who used to live in the Phoenix area is that the Maricopa Live Steamers moved out of McCormick Park for a larger facility of their own awhile back.

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 27, 2014 3:32 pm

Just remembered another city owned park train--the heavy-duty operation at Portland, Oregon, recently commented upon in the Aerotrain and "Are Park Trains "Real" Trains?" threads.

There is also, I believe, a zoo railroad in Oklahoma--Oklahoma City?--using full sized narrow gauge equipment, including a German tank steamer, perhaps an 0-6-0.

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Sat Sep 27, 2014 4:16 pm

PaulWWoodring wrote:

My understanding from a friend who used to live in the Phoenix area is that the Maricopa Live Steamers moved out of McCormick Park for a larger facility of their own awhile back.

Quote:

The Adobe Western Railroad is located on 43rd Avenue across the street from
Wet 'N Wild Waterpark just south of Pinnacle Peak Road in north Phoenix.
It is about 2 miles west of I-17 and a mile north of Loop 101.

http://www.maricopalivesteamers.com/index.php

Cordicron · **Joined:** Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:24 pm **Posts:** 58

The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium has a pair of CP Huntington 24" gauge gasoline powered trains. They replaced a pair of 16" gauge trains donated by the Mellon family.
The zoo used to be owned and operated by the City of Pittsburgh but has since been run by a separate entity
http://www.cphuntington.itgo.com/custom2.html
http://www.pittsburghzoo.com/

hamster · **Posted:** Sat Sep 27, 2014 9:42 pm

The Milwaukee Zoo has a very well run railroad with two steam locomotives. The zoo takes its railroad very seriously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... gUacG34v4c

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

I certainly hope that city officials in Spartanburg have enough brains to sell the train to someone else, rather than scrap it!

bbunge · **Posted:** Sat Sep 27, 2014 10:36 pm

wesp wrote:

There are two county-owned park trains operating in Montgomery County, MD and one in adjacent Prince George's County. All of them are Chance Huntington trains.

Somewhat OT, but interesting is co-located with the park train in Prince George's county is the merry-go-round that was once at the terminus of the Chesapeake Beach RR, which ran quite close to the current park location. The merry-go-round is operational, under cover and in wonderful condition.

Unless I'm mistaken all three of these trains are operated by the same government body, a co-county partnership designed coordinate activities.

Bob

tomgears · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:00 am

A company near me had a worker fall from a piece of scaffolding. It was clearly the worker at fault, he was not following procedures, but the company cut up the perfectly good scaffolding and bough a brand new set the next time they needed it.

Alan Walker · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:31 pm

tomgears wrote:

A company near me had a worker fall from a piece of scaffolding. It was clearly the worker at fault, he was not following procedures, but the company cut up the perfectly good scaffolding and bough a brand new set the next time they needed it.

Possibly cheaper to scrap the scaffold than pay attorney bills on any future possible claim.