Woodland Park Links

I'm not sure how this works, but I found a video that has a few seconds of the Woodland Park train. It's about at 4:00 in the video.

The Video shows the initial curve down by where the back gate into the future kiddee land, than going North towards the big hill and finishing by coming down the straight behind the locomotive display. (Short Fence). You'll note the kids in back starting to stand up and mug for the camera. Little buggers just couldn't stay in the seats.

https://youtu.be/1DGE0ryM9dQ

Not sure how to caption each picture, but you can see the cars ride, the Helicopter ride and some train pictures. I can't date them at all, as the train shows rubble behind it, so that must be before the Kiddeland rides were constructed. Also note behind the Train Station, that you can see a bit of the Ferris Wheel

This were NOT easy to find, I googled my fingers off.

I'll talk about the rides in a later blog

Dad

The Helicopter ride from the date of Jun 65 would have been taken while I worked there. Notice all of the suits on the men visiting the zoo. Also, you can see a glimpse of one of the workers in the 'uniform' that we wore, white coveralls. He's right in front of the phone booth, anothersign of the times. (An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, "against" and χρόνος khronos, "time")

The car ride was a high maintenance ride, as I'll discuss in a later blog. Behind the car is the rail tunnel that aslo served as the overnight garage for the train.

The train station was used before the rides were located here, was the ticket booth when the train was by itself for several years prior to the kiddeeland, Note the full size caboose, that was the restrooms for the ride area (Prior to the ADA rules), and to the far left you can see part of the Ferris wheel.

Here is a good view of the passenger cars. The doors were just openings, and the normal seat capacity was 2. Sometimes 3 kids shared a seat. There were 4 passenger cars with 2 locomotives pulling the load.