Detroit City Zoo railroad: Still in business?

[caboose63]

I have not been down to Detroit City Zoo in almost 40 years. I was wondering if their narrow gauge railroad is still in operation or abanonded. Also what other city zoos' excursion railroads in the USA are still in operation?

[CMStPnP]

caboose63

I have not been down to Detroit City Zoo in almost 40 years. I was wondering if their narrow gauge railroad is still in operation or abanonded. Also what other city zoos' excursion railroads in the USA are still in operation?

Milwaukee Public Zoo has a miniture railroad that you can ride around the zoo grounds with. 

[Dakguy201]

The Omaha zoo has a nice ride:

http://omahazoo.sitewrench.com/train

 

[ROBERT WILLISON]

Cedar point on the shore of lake Erie has the last coal fired narrow gauge locomotives found in an amusement park.

[CandOforprogress2]

[morey2001]

A quick look at their website, https://detroitzoo.org/visit/zoo-attractions/tauber-family-railroad/ ,  shows this is still running......

Chris M.

 

 

[Eastrail11]

Zoo Miami has a monorail if that counts.

Also the Gold Coast Railroad museum is right next door, you can walk from the Zoo to the museum, It would probably take less than two minutes from parking to the muesem, they even use the same entrance point. Funny part is you have to enter zoo grounds, or area designated to the zoo, to be able to reach the museum. 

https://www.google.com/maps/@25.615426,-80.3980371,691m/data=!3m1!1e3

 

~Eastrail

[spsffan]

Santa Barbara, California, has a nice, if somewhat smaller zoo with a trian ride that goes around grounds. Plus, the UP Coast Line, complete with Amtrak California (and Coast Starlight) trains is right across the street. I never knew the zoo was there until one day, riding on Amtrak approaching Santa Barbara (from LA) and I saw an elephant out the window!

[xboxtravis7992]

Outside the San Diego Zoo is a small train ride alongside the parking lot. The train cars are painted in a nice tribute to the SP Daylight scheme: http://desertempireproject.blogspot.com/2017/07/another-day-of-sun-trip-to-california.html

Hogle Zoo in Utah has one of those CP Huntington styled engines that loops around the park's Africa section and through a western town area.

Lagoon Amusument Park in Utah also has a train passing by some animal displays. The two engines in Lagoon are the only regularly ran live steam engines that carry passengers in the state right now (not counting the backyard railroad scales).