Alternate Railroad

Okay, I was looking at the 1985 CP map and there appears to be an alternate railroad. It goes throught the midway leading into Frontier Town. Does anyone know what this was used for?

Are you talking next to where Red Garter Saloon is? or by Gemini?

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Sounds like you are talking about Cedar Junction (current location of the MF crossover). I believe in the old days it was used for turning the trains around. Oh Dave A.?

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That could be it too. Always wondered about that.

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There used to be a "siding" (I'm not a railroad person, so I don't know the technical terms) that ran from the "main line" across Frontier Trail, from the Bay side of the railroad track (near where you _used_ to enter the trees on your way to Frontier Town) across the trail, to Cedar Junction (where the caboose sits), to the "main" line behind Cedar Junction (where the Boneville characters are working on a hand car, singing _I've Been Workin' on the Railroad_.

I'm not old enough to remember when the railroad came all the way out to the end of the lagoons. I also do not remember a crossing in the Frontier Trail. My guess is that it might have been a siding before the Frontier Trail was constructed, with the track removed to make way for the Frontier Trail? Perhaps Pete Babic knows...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Well, I know that the Cedar Junction station was a part of the trail since day one. For the life of me I can't remember if that track was ever used to turn trains before the Frontier Trail was built. Since the railroad always ran only in the direction it does now, the only reason I can think of to turn trains would be to get the engine the enter the engine house front first. I know that passengers never rode on that track. When the Frontier Trail first opened the caboose at Cedar Junction was open for inspection. It was really fun to enter it and pretend you were working on a train.

I seem to remember, perhaps incorrectly, track that crossed the trail. However, if the memory is real, it was clearly never used for anything other than for show.

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Before Frontiertown was built the train station was located about where Dodgem2 and the IMAX theater are. The track that used to cross the trail by Cedar Junction Depot was used for the return part of the trip. The outgoing and inbound tracks were side by side in the area by the current engine house.

If that was the case, did they move the burning hotel to its present location from someplace else? If the Cedar Junction track was the old return track, the train would not have gone past the burning hotel.

I wish my memories of this were more clear, but I think Sprint Car has got it. The scenes along the train ride evolved as that part of the park developed. As I remember there are now fewer scenes than there used to be and some are in different places.

Going way back...

Guest use to be able to ride a train that dropped them off right in front of Hotel Breakers. Don't know when that last was but I have seen old pictures of it.

There is a side track for the Cedar Juction cabose.