SFGAm going green with their train ride.

According to their facebook site, they are going green and converting their fuel from diesel to vegetable oil to run their trains.

Any other parks going this route?

My favorite MJ tune: "Billie Jean" which I have been listening to alot now. RIP MJ.

Disneyland has also done this.

My mother (1946-2009) once asked me why I go to Magic Mountain so much. I said I feel the most alive when I'm on a roller coaster.
2010 total visits: SFMM-9, KBF-2
2010 total ride laps: 437

Makes sense. They both probably have a TON or two of oil from the fyers kicking around.

I belive you might see the trams and busses doing this too.

Coaster Junkie from NH
I drive in & out of Boston, so I ride coasters to relax!

By 'green' this is a matter of re-using waste product as fuel?

I know Silverwood was running their steam train on used motor oil back in 1999. Of course, you can run a steam train on pretty much anything that will burn; diesel engines are somewhat more particular...

(not to mention less particulate...)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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When are we going to see Electric trains? Or better yet, time-travelling ones like in Back to the Future III...

I call Cedar Point my home park even though I live in the Chicago Suburbs.

When somebody comes up with a flux capacitor and I get a Mr. Fusion. :)

Coaster Junkie from NH
I drive in & out of Boston, so I ride coasters to relax!

Most of the big freight and passenger trains you see in revenue service in the US today are electric trains. In spite of that big cloud of black diesel smoke.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

(they just haven't electrified the tracks, so the locomotives have to bring along their own power plant)

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There is an exception to that rule: Amtrak's Acela, which runs between Boston & Washington, D.C. is pure electric, gettiting it's power from an overhead line.

Coaster Junkie from NH
I drive in & out of Boston, so I ride coasters to relax!

Electrified railways were not at all uncommon in the US. The Virginian Railway had a stretch that ran through WV. The Great Northern had a large electrified line in the northwest. Add to this all the street cars that ran from an overhead catenary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_electrification_in_the_United_States

Before you can be older and wiser you first have to be young and stupid.

Don't forget forget about all the subways runing on "third rail," systems.

Coaster Junkie from NH
I drive in & out of Boston, so I ride coasters to relax!

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