Cedar Point’s coal-powered railroad marks 50 years

CP&LE Railroad one of only three coal-fired amusement park railroads in United States

Sunday, 04 August 2013

Long before there was a Top Thrill Dragster or a Millennium Force or a Mean Streak at Cedar Point amusement park, there was the Cedar Point & Lake Erie Railroad.

But the diminutive trains on their two-mile track serve a transportation function on the sprawling park’s western half as well as a connection to its past. Unlike the railroads in most other amusement parks, the CP&LE is still run the old-fashioned way: with coal-fired steam locomotives.

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