"Kings Dominion needs a transportation ride." Everyone says this: the GP at the park and those who just talk to me, enthusiasts on like us on this site, and pretty much everyone who stays at Kings Dominion for more than a few hours. After all, they used to have a nice skyride to take you from the Grove to Hanna-Barbera Land and the Old Dominion Railway train ride through the woods (even though it was actually only a one-stop ride). Now, it can get really tiring and annoying to walk across that long, straight, mostly asphalt midway between the Congo and the end of the Grove, without any true transportation ride.So wouldn't it be nice to bring back a train ride to service guests between this area? That's where my concept comes in...
Solutions to bringing back a train have been mentioned in a few other threads. Some suggested putting a full-circuit train ride around the entire perimeter of the park. Others argued that would be too costly, difficult to build around so many pre-existing attractions, and hard to go into the pathways to load people. Then people suggested a train ride to simply dissect a portion of the park, but then people could try to jump onto or in front of a moving train, or block traffic, so no to that, too. Then I suggested the bare minimum approach, use a trackless train to just drive back and forth in a train-themed vehicle, but this poses the same issue of danger with being in a pedestrian area with a moving ride vehicle. It seemed like it would be impossible to put a train back into the park!
Then I got a really simple idea: How about they just clear a little dirt path in the woods behind Rebel Yell between the two parts of Water Works? From what I am able to tell from atop the Eiffel Tower, Rebel Yell, satellite images, Water Works pathways, and Windseeker/Drop Tower, there is nothing but a stretch of trees between the entire stretch of Rebel Yell and the lower portion of Water Works, along with a service road and one guest pathway leading to the rest of Water Works. This means they could easily clear a little strip of trees, clear out a dirt road, and let two Zamperla People Express trains (trackless train-themed trams) service back there, shuttling guests between a "station" located at the dead end next to Hurler and Ricochet and a train station in the Congo near Anaconda (preferably if the ride were to close anytime soon to re-utilize the area for a loading station. Here is a diagram I made using a Google Maps satellite view, along with my planned layout for the train.
Solutions to bringing back a train have been mentioned in a few other threads. Some suggested putting a full-circuit train ride around the entire perimeter of the park. Others argued that would be too costly, difficult to build around so many pre-existing attractions, and hard to go into the pathways to load people. Then people suggested a train ride to simply dissect a portion of the park, but then people could try to jump onto or in front of a moving train, or block traffic, so no to that, too. Then I suggested the bare minimum approach, use a trackless train to just drive back and forth in a train-themed vehicle, but this poses the same issue of danger with being in a pedestrian area with a moving ride vehicle. It seemed like it would be impossible to put a train back into the park!
Then I got a really simple idea: How about they just clear a little dirt path in the woods behind Rebel Yell between the two parts of Water Works? From what I am able to tell from atop the Eiffel Tower, Rebel Yell, satellite images, Water Works pathways, and Windseeker/Drop Tower, there is nothing but a stretch of trees between the entire stretch of Rebel Yell and the lower portion of Water Works, along with a service road and one guest pathway leading to the rest of Water Works. This means they could easily clear a little strip of trees, clear out a dirt road, and let two Zamperla People Express trains (trackless train-themed trams) service back there, shuttling guests between a "station" located at the dead end next to Hurler and Ricochet and a train station in the Congo near Anaconda (preferably if the ride were to close anytime soon to re-utilize the area for a loading station. Here is a diagram I made using a Google Maps satellite view, along with my planned layout for the train.
