*DING, DING*

Was it you that dropped a hat one time that the robbers fetched for you between shows? The conductor came out the next time around to find "conductor Alphie" telling him how to run his train. LOL

No, I RAN all the way up to Powder Keg to get my hat while the train was being robbed.

i know. :) there was another time someone dropped their hat off the train and the robbers fetched it later. i dont remember who it was though.

Colter Comstock your the nicest guy ever

+Colter Comstock That must've been.... interesting, to say the least...

thanks!

+Themeparkfanatic thank you so much!

LOL, here is one for you then. I worked for a couple seasons at a different theme park operating multiple rides. One of the ones I was operating one evening was a powered launch coaster. It seemed like a normal run and since it was during the Halloween season I was welcoming everyone back as "Boils and Ghouls." Anyway at one point everyone is in and almost ready to go when I hear someone say, "Excuse me sir! Is this thing safe?" About midway along the coaster is a middle aged woman who is strapped in basically at the point of no return and I stop and look at her. Now I am a person who can generally prank anyone I want and usual have the good stories since I was about twice the age of the average worker. And here I am almost dumbfounded someone would ask this question after they are strapped in. So what was about half a second but felt like I had all the time in the world to come up with an answer I pop off and say (while keeping a dead straight face), "I don't know..... But I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!" The people nearby were cracking up laughing and the woman whom I answered was very flustered to say the least. I ended up finally explaining after she stammered for a bit and everyone had stopped laughing that the ride was checked by maintenance every morning and then tested by the ride operators before starting the day and had operated all day without any issue but every time I remember the "deer in the headlights" look she had I have to laugh a little more. I parted ways this year from that park due to issues they were having with their supervisory staff and maintenance staff doing their jobs correctly but hopefully I will rise again elsewhere in the near future.

Thanks! Happy to hear you're enjoying them.

*hiding my head in shame* lol

OMG I was there too! I grew up with a Silver Dollar City season pass so I was familiar with the show, and I remember that particular show being really odd. I had guessed that there was a SNAFU with the shotgun, and I thought the whole team did a great job of improvising through the situation. It really increased my respect for the actors. I think it's great that I can finally hear what had actually happened; I had no idea! Y'all did great, Sir Willow!

We don't talk about such things happening. It's not in the script. ;-)

It happened about 1/3 rd of the time when I was there, and of course we had a script for that. C: "Lady? do you claim these boys to be your sons?" Lady: "Yes" C: "You do?!" Bolins: "She does?!" C: "Lady ... you ain't supposed to do that ..." etc. Bolins & conductor act like it's never happened before ... One of the few times when the conductor gets the laughs.

Shhhhh. :-P

as many times as I've heard people say they were on that train, I'm starting to think it must have held a couple of thousand people. lol What bit of improv do you remember from it?

depending on what kind of discounts you can find, it will typically run between $40-60/ day per person. Online tickets are $62 for adults and seniors and $51 for kids.

The Crazy Family Show it's fun

that would be a lot of fun. Hopefully sometime in the future

SirWillow plus be sure to check out my KZfaq channel where I posted my Illinois Railway Museum videos, I noticed you lettered all your trains at Silver Dollar City are lettered FRISCO, well at our museum we actually have a operational steam locomotive that worked for the real Frisco railroad it's a 2-10-0 Russian Decapod #1630. Why Russian? Because it was built by the Baldwin locomotive works in Philadelphia during the First World War, but it was destined to be shipped to Russia for their 5 foot gauge, but then the Balisovic Revolution happened and it was sent back to Baldwin and re gauge back to US railroad standards. Plus your Train stories have got this train lover to subscribe to your channel.

Matthew Gustafson the reason SDC has Frisco everywhere is because they are the ones who originally laid down the track. They did it free in exchange for having their logo and name on the trains as a means of advertising. Now that the Frisco is gone, I believe that SDC is the only operating railroad legally using and called the Frisco anymore.

*come not coke

They do like to give me a bad time when I visit them at SDC. And I've had a couple from Disney and Busch get ahold of me because of the videos, which is pretty neat.

the only time the gun is loaded is right before it's fired, and it's only loaded with a blank gunpowder charge. If you ever watch a video of the robbery, you'll see the conductor load it as he's going down the steps to leave and get back on the train. Otherwise the gun is never loaded, and certainly not with a shotgun shell (it's actually fitted so a regular shell can't go in it) just to make sure there aren't any "incidents"

You answered the question I asked and even the one I didn't ask but wanted to: it was loaded with a blank to go off. Thanks for the answer and for these vids. And impressive coaster (and park) count!

Thankfully I didn't personally have it pulled when it wasn't. But a couple of my co-workers did. But because it's not "my" story, my details may be fuzzy or inaccurate, so I'm hesitant to share it.

Oh great, someone who witnessed my humiliation. lol I hope it ended up a funny show for you. I was to stressed to really know. :-)

Lots of people saw me when I was younger. lol The train takes well over a half million riders over the course of a year (now that's a crazy number!!), so you're far from alone.

@@SirWillow I know it's just cool to think

Which gun issue? Unless you worked with the train at the time, you'd never be aware of when the gun was dropped. Just might wonder why the conductor didn't have it for the one show.

SirWillow no sorry i meant when you walked up to the train robbers without your gun

ahh, so you were on that one train? Only train that ever saw me without a gun. lol In the three years i was there I think there might have been only one other where the conductor didn't have a gun, and that was also a mistake.

depends on how much 'shine he's had. lol

Outlaw Run. I absolutely love that coaster. :-)

SirWillow how bout non roller coasters?

depends on the weather and who I'm with then. Attraction would be the cave tour if that counts. :-)

SirWillow yep that counts good choice

Sounds like you need to watch a video of the train robbery. :-) He's gotta have something to protect him self from those outlaw train robbers

SirWillow I guess so! Thanks for replying!

No, Silver Dollar City is a theme park in Branson, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains in the south west corner of the state. Disney of course is in Florida and California, both being about a 2-3 day drive away.

SirWillow this was in Missouri?

SolitaryAuto yes

branfeather the gun didn't go off- it wasn't loaded. We never went around with a loaded gun- we only ever loaded it about 1 or 2 seconds before we fired it. the "boom" was the clip that held the gun in place breaking but it sounded like a tree branch landed on top of the train car.

Thank goodness o-o no chance of accidental injury then ^-^

Logan Smith don't hope for that

+TheAnonymousWaffle Branson, Missouri

it's a real shotgun. Many places that still do an "old west" style show will use real guns for the authentic look and sound. Cap guns look and sound like exactly that- and sorry but that's crappy. There are numerous procedures for safe handling and to keep it away from guests. They actually have an insert put in them so they can't shoot regular shotgun shells but only specially ordered blanks. But if you want it to look and sound real, then you go with real.