Cincy area News tidbits PKI and Americana

Chuck, my experience doesn't go back that far. I understand that in one of Americana's many fires, they lost a bunch of cars, and the 3-car train was actually made up of three middle cars from the two original trains. By the time I got to the park, those three cars are all they had.

So in answer to your question, I honestly don't know...but that was allegedly a NAD train, and may have been part of the one you remember.

FWIW: After they did the most recent renovation, which included removing the big flywheel and replacing it with a reduction gearbox, I toured the boneyard behind the coaster with NAPHA. On the ground was half of a pillow-block casting, probably part of the original flywheel pillow block. Someone had drilled it and tapped it to install a grease zerk, but the interesting thing was the name on the casting: "DAYTON FUN HOUSE". I'm guessing that was one of the coaster's original original parts!

(the Dayton Fun House and Riding Device Company morphed into National Amusement Device at some point in its history; I don't know when.)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.