>>2065272

Do they still have the Hawaiian engine?

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>>2065564

Yes but they haven't used it to pull trains since the 1980s. It can handle the climb up the mountain, but can only pull 2-3 coaches at most (the average consist is 6 coaches) so it's not very efficient. They do like to run it back and forth on a shorter line though.

I actually floated the idea to a conductor that they should do occasional excursions with 1-2 coaches but apparently management cares more about getting the full revenue value of a 6-car train.

Pic from the 2018 Day Out with Thomas event. Pity too, they could definitely dress it up as a relatively convincing Percy.

It's an overpriced tourist trap so no

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>>2065917
>overpriced

Gotta admit that $50 for a 90 minute trip compared to Niles Canyon's $30 is a bit of a hard sell, but I Roaring Camp runs as a year-round business with paid staff so profits are a must for them. With NCRY, they can afford the lower prices because they only need to pay for the upkeep of the property and the rolling stock.

Day Out with Thomas is a total ripoff though.

>>2065925
>Day Out with Thomas is a total ripoff though.
Yeah, but the kids love it.

I went there as a kid and no other train experience really lived up to that. You must have to be a really jaded foamer to say stuff like this >>2065917

>>2065272
It's a nice place. Shame that we'll never have the original experience of crossing the corkscrew trestle. Also the beach train line used to have another tunnel until it was burned down in 1993. Now the train goes through the cut away right next to the buried tunnel remains.