Here's another follow up question regarding the possible Brevard Zoo / Ft Wilderness Railroad connection.
Do any of you know WHEN the actually track was removed from Ft Wilderness? Again, that zoo opened in 1994, and the FWRR closed/stopped running in the late 70's... my initial thought was "the timeline doesn't add up." But that doesn't mean the actual track couldn't have simply sat unused for a 12 or so years. Is that what happened? Did they let the tracks sit unused for years until the Brevard Zoo came around asking for the track?
The Brevard Zoo actually has something call the Railroad Engineer Program.
https://brevardzoo.org/membership/railroad_engineer
I'm planning on calling them to see if anyone there (who has been there awhile) can confirm if they are in fact using the old FWRR tracks.
Not sure why, I just find Disney history fascinating. Especially closed attractions, rides no longer running, extinct/abandoned areas etc... and this is kinda fun to talk about because you can still walk the grounds of FW and actually see where the train once ran. Very cool stuff.
I read about these people whon have taken the engines home, I'm very grateful they will get some care. That page you mention is several years old and I can't find any new reports about the restorations. I anyone knows of the progress being made it would be great to share the pictures.
The strange Adam the Woo history video
There is still some track left in some areas. One of the next times that I'm camping I need to bring a saw and get a piece of it. It is completely loose and if we could lift a 20+' piece of track we could have walked out with it. From friend have one of the splices that they used on it that we found we were bushwhacking the area.
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