"Ride" on a defunct German amusement park train?

[OT Dean]

I thought this might be of interest to others in the group, so I thought I'd run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes:

For couple of years I got regular email collections of photos of trains (and other stuff) from Pinterest, but it was maddening to have an interesting photo show up almost daily, from several posters, without the slightest inkling of a story, much less a location, to go with it.  One such was a set of narrow gauge tracks crossing water and diving into a tunnel-like opening in the trees, but again, nothing to tell me where, or what, it was, though it looked like tracks for an amusement park train.  Finally, I spotted it in a video on YouTube that showed that same scene, searched for it, and found a video labeled "Spreepark Berlin Parkbahn Onride," and it's really neat, to use one of my generation's adjectives.  The camera makes the trip around the extensive run through the defunct Spreepark as if riding on the front of the loco, all to a John Williams theme from "Jurassic Park."  It's two minutes long, so I keep going back to it.  See what you think.

Deano

[hon30critter]

Deano,

Was there supposed to be a link to the video in your thread? If so, I don't see it.

Dave

[Over50]

Found it here..

[SeeYou190]

That is pretty neat.

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I wish it was in color and moved a little slower.

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-Kevin

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[gmpullman]

SeeYou190

I wish it was in color and moved a little slower.

[I tried to imbed the video here but the "owner" has disabled that feature]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eftVkruYJPQ&t=246s

 

Enjoy, Ed

[OT Dean]

Over50

Found it here..

 

Thanks, I don't know how to add a link to a post--and for some reason I couldn't even Copy and Paste the heading in an email I sent a modeler friend.  Maybe you can't do that outside of YouTube?  All I know is that trestle crossing the water intrigued me so much that my fingers fumbled typing it into the search window when I found it was Spreepark Berlin!  A big plus for me is the John Williams music, as I'm a big fan.  Glad you guys enjoyed it.  (I still wonder how he did it!)

Deano

BTW, I watched another video by an "Urban Explorer" group that focused on that huge Ferris Wheel.  The darn thing, big as it is, can be turned by Human Power!

[OT Dean]

gmpullman

 

 

SeeYou190

I wish it was in color and moved a little slower.

 

 

[I tried to imbed the video here but the "owner" has disabled that feature]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eftVkruYJPQ&t=246s

 

Enjoy, Ed

 

Thanks, Ed, I'd been wondering what the loco looked like.  I see it's another European interpretation of the "Vild Vest."

Deano

[dknelson]

There is something vaguely menacing about the abandoned buildings near the ROW and the weedy trackbed.

I found this - perhaps the same park?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e89h_XPP7c

 

Dave Nelson

[mvlandsw]

How did the railroad survive when the park closed?

[gmpullman]

mvlandsw

How did the railroad survive when the park closed?

My guess is that a small group of enthusiasts contacted the property owner or somehow got permission to take the train out for "one last spin" before the track was — presumably — ripped up.

https://www.abandonedberlin.com/2010/04/spreepark-and-how-to-get-in.html

Just a guess.

Cheers, Ed