from the website:

>Take a leisurely 20-minute steam train ride through the beautiful Ozark countryside surrounding Silver Dollar City. Greet fellow guests as you pass through the train crossing near the Frisco Freight Barn and over the train trestle near the Silver Dollar Saloon. Watch out! Train robbers briefly interrupt your ride in a humorous stick-up attempt, so hold on to your hat and your wallet!

bet you anything it was those fucking train robbers

If you've never been, this train probably tops out at 10-15 mph. It's a pretty chill ride.

Silver Dollar City is one of the better non-Disney / non-Universal theme parks in the United States, so it's a big(ger) deal that something like this happened. According to the statement released by the park, six guests and one employee were taken to the hospital, though I don't believe we've heard any further than that.

Most train rides in theme parks barely travel faster than running speed, so even in a situation like this, the potential for serious injury is somewhat low, IMO.

A law firm based in Springfield is posting on socials asking for victims to reach out. They state that they supposedly represented plaintiffs in a case related to the Ride The Ducks amphibious buses, which were owned by Silver Dollar City's parent company, Herschend, at the time.

I actually rode this ride a couple hours before this happened. I had been joking with my wife that the train was actually more dangerous than the coasters I was making her ride with me. I had meant because it gets robbed every time it goes out, but I guess I was more right than I knew.

There are a couple places on the train route where the track is built right next to fairly steep downhill drop-offs. If it had tipped over in one of those spots, this could have been a much uglier thing.

Tourists really need to stop going on rides in Missouri. They have a terrible track record.

I wonder if the people who designed these rides took the nation's obesity problem into account when testing.

I've been on this ride a couple of years ago. It is very relaxing ride.

I've got a great idea! Attach the wheels to the bottom of the train.

Per the website the ride opened May 27, 1962. It's 1.6 miles long. It runs continuously when the park is open.

Did they all go to one side?

Who left a penny on the tracks?

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Strange rare accident for sure. The only thing I can think of is the park did not properly maintain this ride probably due to covid and budget cuts.

Otherwise I am sure I join many other people in saying and believing the train is the safest ride at the park with its low speeds. I mean its the type of ride you wouldn't be afraid to put your grandma on. Rides like the train have almost no restrictions on who cannot ride it.

Wonder what the maintenance records are like.

I took a smaller, slower train ride like this up in Canada. It was the ride's first year in service so they were still ironing out some details. At one point, the mini-train was struggling to get up an incline, so they asked us kids to get out and help push it up. We were cracking up at how rinky-dink it was, and figured they'd probably be sued if it was in America, but it was a lot of fun.

This happened about 30 years ago in an amusement park in Indiana; paralyzed some kid and killed her grandma, and they closed the park when it was discovered that management pretty much never maintained any of the rides