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Another great website for park trains. Good luck!
Story Land in Glen, NH has four C.P.Huntington engines and three sets of six cars including a handicapped accessible car on each set. They operate up to three trains at one time with three stops throughout the park. They are spotlessly maintained and each train has a different color scheme (red, blue, green).
Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT has one C.P.Huntington train with six cars.
The Ecotarium in Worcester, MA has a C.P.Huntington train.
The train runs on a 1 mile loop of track around the park. *** Edited 12/26/2004 1:48:29 AM UTC by Dukeis#1***
Oops...it isn't a CP Huntington according to that site. *** Edited 12/27/2004 8:45:10 PM UTC by janfrederick***
The city of Huntington, West Virginia is named after him.
So a beach in California has something in common with a town in West Virginia? Far out! ;)
Man, I GOTTA go to the California Rail Museum. I keep missing out. Next time I visit my buddy in Modesto I'm so there.
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Erie Zoo
Louisville Zoo
Good Zoo, Oglebay Park, Wheeling, WV
Toledo Zoo
Columbus Zoo
Del Grosso's Amusement Park
Lakemont Park
Michigan's Adventure
Lake Winnepesaukah (came from West View Park)
Camden Park in Huntington, WV once had a "CP Huntington" but just to be confusing about it, that was their river-excursion boat. The park has a miniature train, but it isn't a Chance, it's a NAD...a bit larger than the CP Huntington, and with the diesel engine and drive train located in the tender rather than in the locomotive.
Del Grosso's has an operating train which I believe to be a CP Huntington, but they also have a Crown locomotive on display. Lakemont Park operates a CP Huntington, but has, or at least had, one or two NAD trains parked on a siding. Hersheypark has a Crown miniature train. Indiana Beach runs a Herschell Iron Horse train.
Does anybody know what happened to the CP Huntington and the Crown locomotives that ran at Hillcrest Park?
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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In the mid 90's, there were two accidents. Both accidents involved trains hitting eachother. The latest of the two accidents involved two trains wrecking over a bridge and the weight of one car derailing over the bridge caused the whole train to fall into the San Antonio River below. I'm not sure how many fatalities there were.
The trains shut down for a while and new trains were purchased (both two blue and red C.P. Huntingtons). The original owner of the trains closed them down and planned to remove them in 2001 but the San Antonio Zoo purchased them and keeps them open. I took a ride on them the other day. It only cost me $2.50 for a round trip. I think it's nice because I can use it for transportation to the golf course whose parking lot is usually full when I'm in town.
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